"The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts."

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Source : Diana Palmer (2011). “The Case of the Missing Secretary”, p.109, Harlequin

Diana Palmer

#Art Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Harvey Publications hired me as a letterer, and they found out six seconds after I got the job that I couldn't letter. I still can't letter. So, they hired me to draw.”

Source : "The Trouble With Drawing Dick Cheney". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. September 10, 2006.
“When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I presume that each country will have a different response to each joke. But mostly what I've seen is that everyone has the same response. The line about: "He hasn't had this much fun since they burned all those kids at Waco..." I thought that might get a real.... it does in America, it gets a shock, as if they fall back in their seats, but then they still laugh.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“I'm not a good-looking guy. I don't care if my nose gets mashed.”
“Wit is cultured insolence.”
“So I am happy with what I did. And I tell you something, when an artist does something, he doesn't have at the beginning, big goals and objectives, you do the thing because you love it.”

Source : Interview with Carolina Varga Dinicu, www.casbahdance.org. June 19, 2003.
“The Republicans just voted last year to end Medicare.”
“I've learned to take the positive and negative, but that still kind of shook me. I'm human. I have moments when I sit back and wonder how doing something that makes me happy can possibly offend other people. You're damned if you do, damned if you don't. I don't have time for that.”

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