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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."

"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

"Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities."

"I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind."
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"To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination."

"The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style."

"I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing."

"It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning."

"I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it."
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