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Iris Apfel

"I donâ€™t care what people thinkâ€¦I learned a long time agoâ€¦I was 19 and had a very traumatic experienceâ€¦.and I learned that I have to go to bed with myself at night and that I have to please myselfâ€¦and as long as I donâ€™t go out of my way to offend anybody that I love, upset my mother or my husbandâ€¦Iâ€™ll do my own thing. And if the public doesnâ€™t like it, itâ€™s their problem, not mine."

-- Iris Apfel

#Mother Quotes #Husband Quotes #Night Quotes

“I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've used the skull caps or cowls to banish hair, which is distracting. I want to isolate the face and concentrate on what is really going on deep within my subjects.”
“Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement-the art of living.”
“The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.”
“Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.”
“But there's the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The way of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning--the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life--a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them.”

Source : Jed Rubenfeld (2007). “The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan
“I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him.”
“The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.”
“As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.”

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