"The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites."

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Chuck Close

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“I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.”
“I'm a parent. I think we're responsible for the problems that young people have. I believe that. I don't blame them for any of it. I blame us for what we haven't done as mothers and fathers, not sticking together as a unit.”
“A wild appreciation of men and women . . . who passionately and fearlessly and recklessly redefine romance. . . . The passionate creatures who refuse to play it safe and settle down now have an intelligent, like-minded advocate.”
“To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.”
“A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.”
“I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows.”

Source : "Work-Life Balance? Puh-leaase!" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}”
“I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.”

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