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"If you want to be happy, be."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."

Penelope Lively, English Author

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"I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become."

Kristen Bell, American Actress

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"Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp."

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"The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice."

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"I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be."

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"The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art."

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"The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn."

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"I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do."

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"When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't."

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"There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so."

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"As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does."

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"The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement."

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"Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much."

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