"my sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so many."

-- William Dobell

#Tired Quotes #Years Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“The ban on assault weapons has decreased gun violence in Baltimore not one iota. That's because few, if any, of the shootings were done with assault weapons.”
“April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.”
“I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated and articulate personality--a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) there placement of complex inner density with a new kind of self--evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the 'instantly available.'”
“I think it was the one thing I didnâ€™t like about him or about guys in general: when a girl says she doesnâ€™t want to talk about it, the truth is that she usually does. I wanted him to pry it out of me. Of course, I wouldâ€™ve pretended to be a little angry that he didnâ€™t just leave me alone, but eventually I wouldâ€™ve told him, when I was tired of pretending.”
“If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.”
“People relate to you a lot more when you're honest and authentic - and that's hard to do in front of millions of people every week.”
“When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.”
“I feel the theatre is the most unique one of all [the arts] for collaboration. I feel very fortunate to be in a field where I really do get to have long conversations with the visual artists, the actors, the musicians. It's all art forms rolled into one and I feel very fortunate to be a part of it.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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