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"It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away."
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"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities."
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"I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house."
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"I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco."
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"I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style."
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"I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on."
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"It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation."
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"Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby."
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"Our profile was pretty low, deliberately so. Our constituents were a relatively small audience."
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"Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice."
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"You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression."
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"Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite."
Life
"I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!"
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"Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn."
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"My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris."
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"The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it."
Life
"I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him."
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"Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha."
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"I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich."
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"I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to."
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