"Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself."

-- Chuck Close

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“When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It takes a great deal of labor and love to make ice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own.”
“To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your â€œCore Attachments,â€ means apologizing for your very existence.”
“...We're people and we're different, all of us. And we should be using our differences to bring ourselves closer together. You know? Not be afraid of something that we don't know. ... It's unfortunate that things take a while to progress like this, but it was a great, great victory for equality. I'm proud New York has the balls to stand up for what's right.”
“In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.”
“I think my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one student learns is obviously much different than how another student learns and so I've had to figure out how to get through to people honestly without hurting their feelings - which is no easy task just in the scope of being a human being, much less in the classroom, but which is something that is more important to me now than it was when I was 30 - and to show them a path to improving.”
“I really think the acoustics that Gibson's been making for the last ten years or so are as good as any the company has ever produced and that's saying a lot.”
“The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.”

Source : "WWI: The Battle That Split Europe, And Families". "All things considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 30, 2011.

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