"I've lived a long time, and a lot of things shut down. Painting is one of them. It never occurred to me that I wanted to go back. The world, in a pathetic way, doesn't want me to be an artist; they want me to be in the kitchen, which I just can't do."

-- Michael Chow

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“A PILGRIM IS A WANDERER WITH A PURPOSE. A pilgrimage can be to a place - that's the best known kind - but it can also be for a thing. Mine is for peace, and that is why I am a Peace Pilgrim.”
“I was ten. I had noticed something was weird earlier in the day, but I knew from commercials that one's menstrual period was a blue liquid that you poured like laundry detergent onto maxi pads to test their absorbency. This wasn't blue, so...I ignored it for a few hours.”
“Of course we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die! We believe in all these things. But we do not like the way that the present administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them, we will do more of them, we will do them better and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything!”
“The important thing is not the camera but the eye.”

Source : Oral Roberts (1978). “The Daily Guide to Miracles”
“As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes.”

Source : "Jonah Hill: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. September 20, 2011.
“Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.”
“I advise women to invest in real estate. It is the collateral to be preferred above all others, and the safest means of investing money.”
“Money is created through bank debt. When you go for a mortgage through a bank, they give you $100,000 to buy a house and basically send you out into the world to bring back $200,000 in the next twenty years. The first $100,000 is principal, and the second is interest.”

Source : Interview with Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, www.greenamerica.org. 2009.

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