"I paint life as I would like it to be,"

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Norman Rockwell

“I'm not going to tell you the movies, but I remember getting halfway through the thing and everything sort of tunnel-visioned on me and I couldn't read the script anymore. I looked at the people and I just turned and ran out in a cold sweat. It took me about a year to study it and feel comfortable going in and reading for people.”
“My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.”
“Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we donâ€™t know why, and if we do find out why, itâ€™s decades later and knowing why doesnâ€™t matter any more.”

Source : Douglas Coupland (2008). “All Families are Psychotic”, p.51, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.”
“It's always better to be doing.”
“People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is â€œyouâ€™re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everythingâ€™s screwed up, nothingâ€™s ever gonna work out rightâ€, thatâ€™s cynicism. But skepticism is, â€œyouâ€™re presented with evidence and you do your best to draw conclusions based on thatâ€. So, as the saying goes, Bill Nye, do you believe in ghosts? No. However, I would love to see one. Bring it on. Iâ€™m open minded to the idea, but the more I look into it in a skeptical frame of thinking, the less likely it seems.”
“We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.”
“We used to have our own plane with the band's name on the side. It was a dream come true. You drive to a local airport. There's none of this checking in stuff; you just get on the plane.”

Source : "Me and my travels". Interview with Jon Bennett, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

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