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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.
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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