"As soon as your brain starts telling you that you can't have a tree that is blue then you stop being able to paint trees."

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Source : "Sargy Mann: the blind painter of Peckham" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2010.

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“The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.”

Source : "Captain Corelli's Mandolin : Interview With Penélope Cruz". www.cinema.com. 2001.
“Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.”
“Win or lose, I am programmed to do more. That's because I am the other son of Jorel - Superman.”
“Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.”
“To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.”
“Romance isn't in my repertoire, Eva. But a thousand ways to make you come are. Let me show you.”
“All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.”
“I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.”

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