"With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern."

-- Jimmy Connors

#Tennis Quotes #Swirls Quotes #Concern Quotes

“I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.”

Source : Michael Thomas Ford (2011). “Suicide Notes”, p.24, Harper Collins
“The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away ones worldly goods.”
“My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.”

Source : "Kemp Won't Enter 1996 Primaries" by Dan Balz, www.washingtonpost.com. January 31, 1995.
“I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do”
“It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.”
“When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.”
“After finishing art school I was applying to stores like Home Depot and Walmart. You know, places where you have to take a urine test before you get your minimum wage. Even those places wouldn't hire me. So I was lucky when I got included in a group show at the Richard Heller gallery that kind of started my art career.”
“All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.”

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