"A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control that reality. It reminds me of something Pablo Picasso was supposed to have said to Gertrude Stein while he was painting her portrait. Gertrude said, â€œI donâ€™t look like that.â€ And Picasso replied, â€œYou will.â€ And he was right."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Reality Quotes #Risk Quotes #Portraits Quotes

“I like to do the camera work myself because I kind of feel it, you know, I don't articulate it, I feel it. It's the same with editing.”
“I'm used to being under pressure... luckily I perform well under pressure.”
“A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.”
“My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.”

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“But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.”
“Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.”
“I'm not too modest of a person. I've got a pretty blue sense of humor.”
“It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.”

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