"The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be."

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Source : Norman Rockwell, Thomas Rockwell (1979). “Norman Rockwell, My Adventures as an Illustrator: An Autobiography”, Curtis Publishing Company, (IN)

Norman Rockwell

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“I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right.”
“I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.”
“Still enmeshed from the knees down, Vayl flopped off the cabinet before we realized he needed a hand down, falling fast and hard like a penguin who hasn't bought the whole flightless scenario.”
“Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.”
“If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.”
“In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.”
“I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.”
“I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing. No health insurance, so if something happened I was screwed. I was lucky my parents had money and my brother was willing to support me for a long time. Once I started doing standup, I had an income, and that was amazing to me.”

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