"To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a â€œgift.â€"

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Source : Andrew Loomis (1943). “Figure drawing for all it's worth”, Viking Pr

Andrew Loomis

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“My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.”
“I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.”
“Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.”
“If one job doesn't pay all the bills, don't worry. You can get another one and another one and another one.”
“So I have just one wish for you â€“ the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom.”
“I've always believed that if you're truly in love with someone, you shouldn't be able to answer the question 'What do you love about him?' with any kind of real satisfaction.”
“I love the conversation between film and music.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It had that kind of open-ended fear to it - like that feeling you get when you're driving and you see a cop. And you're not speeding. You don't have drugs. But you're just thinking, I hope he doesn't notice I'm driving.”

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