"The Human subject is the most important thing. My work is abstract in the sense of having been designed and composed, but it is not abstract in the sense of having no human content I want to communicate. I want the idea to strike right away."

-- Jacob Lawrence

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“A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.”
“There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. "In the Mood for Love," though, reached all the way to my belly.”
“I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable -- the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to bring them together and enjoy them together in full quantity.”
“I work sometimes with dealers and sometimes people just come to me. A lot of the commissions, they just know me. They have seen something and they just approach me.”
“If others hurt you, let the injury go. This is your test. If you let it go, you will find serenity.”
“We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.”

Source : "Alabama Official: Self-Deportation is What We Want" by Elizabeth Llorente, www.foxnews.com. October 6, 2011.
“If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.”
“I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.”

Source : "Marion Jones Gets Six Months in Prison" by Richard Esposito, abcnews.go.com. January 11, 2008.

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