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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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"Do not postpone your problems, solve them now! Because tomorrow you might be weaker than today and there might arise additional problems! Unsheathe your sword now; forget tomorrow, time is now!"

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."

"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."

"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."

"What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower."
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"I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong."

"Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen."

"I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them."

"And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."
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