"Had opened a gallery I already had strong connections with New York, because I was taking work on consignment from New York dealers. So I already knew a great many of the dealers and the artists here. It wasn't cold for me."

-- Virginia Dwan

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“I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.”
“How many of those who are insecure seek power over others as a compensation for inadequacy and wind up bringing consequences down upon their heads and those around them? How many hide out in their lives, resist the summons to show up, or live fugitive lives, jealous, projecting onto others, and then wonder why nothing ever really feels quite right. How many proffer compliance with the other, buying peace at the price of soul, and wind up with neither?”
“It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.”

Source : "Lena Dunham talks Girls with Most Powerful Women". Interview with Soledad O'Brien, fortune.com. October 03, 2012.
“I've actually got turned down for a lot of roles because I'm not bubbly enough. People have told me to be more 'up', but I can't, really. I find it hard to be smiley and giggly all the time.”
“When you lose someone, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time.”
“When you're through learning, you're through.”
“Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. Thatâ€™s the motive and ultimate purpose of prideâ€”to rob God of legitimate glory and to pursue self-glorification, contending for supremacy with Him. The proud person seeks to glorify himself and not God, thereby attempting in effect to deprive God of something only He is worthy to receive”

Source : C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.22, Multnomah
“I grew up in the heart of the Depression.”

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