"A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the works of other painters. This appears more humiliating, but is equally true; and no man can be an artist, whatever he may suppose, upon any other terms."

-- Joshua Reynolds

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“Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody's ever really seen. How many can you find?”
“Your success will be determined by the quality of your relationships with people.”
“To me acting and singing are worlds apart.”
“I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.”
“There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.”
“There isnâ€™t a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger.”
“It's not like we were forced to do something we didn't want to do. I mean, when you see that scene you'll realize that we're really lucky that the weather came at us because now it has a lot more meaning that wasn't automatically there. There's some sort of undertones that wouldn't have existed had we shot it outside. So we got lucky on that and what we try to do is take whatever obstacles come our way and make them work in our favor.”
“Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it”

Source : "Evel Knievel: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. November 30, 2007.

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