"Most artists I know are private, and quiet folks who often spend most of their days alone in a studio."

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Source : "Helping Students Make Friends". Interview with Brian Smith, www.scholastic.com. August 25, 2014.

Dan Santat

#Artist Quotes #Quiet Quotes #Folks Quotes

“You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?”
“Eleanor Roosevelt is a political force of enormous ambitions. I believe she is a menace, unscrupulous as to truth, vain and cynical - all with a pretense of exaggerated kindness and human feeling which deceives millions of gullible persons.”

Source : Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu
“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.”
“There's something funny about being on a big stage and not making a big effort to fill it up”

Source : "'Conchords': HBO's new 'mascots' for New Zealand". Interview with Christine Fenno, ew.com. June 14, 2007.
“We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to be an area I know something about. It's a virus.”

Source : "Gervais to star in 'exquisitely bad movie'" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2005.
“GIFTS is an acronym for Gratitude, Intention, Forgiveness, Triumphs, and Self-love. I believe that those are the principles we need to explore in order to discover our true gifts.”

Source : Interview with Reina Shay Broussard, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Today I'm a more solid, grounded person, positioned to encourage women. I have learned to be molded by God into the person He wants. I want to help and encourage others to be the best they can be.”
“Whatever path you follow push on till tomorrow, Love all, Serve all, and Create no sorrow.”

Source : Song: Unity

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