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I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
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I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky.
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I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellowcreature.
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I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
Source: Speech in Rutland, Vermont (28 August 1891) as reported in The New York Times (29 August 1891), p. 5 -
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
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I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
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I really enjoy being behind the camera. A ton of projects I've done that are my most favorite projects would be where I actually executive produce and I'm behind the camera.
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I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
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I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
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I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
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I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.
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I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
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I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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