"I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene."

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Source : "TIME", Vol. 52, 1948.

Grandma Moses

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“I don't have to hide or be somebody I'm not. I don't have to compromise. I can just be myself.”
“Soccer is simple... you just need to have the right mentality, fighting in every game, in every practice and for every ball.”
“If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?”
“A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is achieving goals by coaching your staff to peak performance. Focusing on the positive means that you start with what's good and what works, and spend your attention and energy there.”
“It's always bittersweet when you have a show that you own, that's against you. It's against one of our favorite comedies for NBC. And yes, that's part of the business model. House was on the Fox network for a number of years and was such a great business for the NBC-owned studio. That's part of what we're also trying to build. Hopefully, Mindy will help do that for us.”
“One of the first cassette tapes I ever purchased was the Rambo III score. I was not allowed to see Rambo, but my mom would allow me to buy the music, so I would listen to that score over and over and imagine the movie. But those limitations and not being able to access those things made me so much more excited about them.”

Source : Source: www.empireonline.com
“Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.”

Source : Liz Curtis Higgs (2012). “The Girl's Still Got It: Take a Walk with Ruth and the God Who Rocked Her World”, p.12, WaterBrook
“The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds of arms for three purposes: (1) crime prevention or what we would today describe as self-defense; (2) national defense; and (3) preservation of individual liberty...”

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