"You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real."

-- Edouard Manet

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“My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life. My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished. If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricityâ€”it would be style...being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.”
“Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.”
“Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I'm not aware of being overweight.”

Source : Daphne Merkin (2014). “The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, and the Importance of Handbags”, p.104, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.”
“The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.”
“The funny thing is that the studio that we recorded in was the same studio that Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole used to warm up their voices in before they went across the street to CBS Radio. The owner has preserved it exactly the way it was in 1925. It was such a perfect coincidence that we were doing music inspired by that stuff in that room. It was incredible.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.”
“I did improv at Yale, with the Exit Players. It was great, but they played a little rough.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

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