"At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery."

-- Andrew Wyeth

#New York Quotes #Age Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.”
“The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.”
“I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.”
“I used to think hard work made me come alive, honestly. I used to have a daily work schedule with millions of things on it and I thought, "This is wonderful!"”
“The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address, That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Caesar seems to have omitted his conjunction to speed things up; he is emphasizing how quickly the conquest of a place follows from its being sighted by a great and ambitious general. Lincoln's omission is more subtle”

Source : Quoted in Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars.
“Drug smugglers often use juveniles to carry their shipments into the U.S. because they know the juveniles will not be prosecuted if caught.”
“We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.”

Source : John Berryman (2014). “77 Dream Songs: Poems”, p.60, Macmillan
“When I was 12, I did my first sort of speaking role. But I wouldn't say I had a passion for it from the start. It developed as I started to become a bit more mature.”

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