- John Singer Sargent
(01/12/1856 – 04/15/1925)
Italian-born US artist
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"It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare."
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"A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth."
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"All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark."
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"You can't wait for inspiration—you have to go after it with a club."
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"I don't think the federation has a head; its neck has just grown up and haired over."
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| "Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest." |  |
| "I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks." |  |
"My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle."
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| "Estelle Winwood is not Tallulah's best friend! I am! And I've got the scars to prove it!" |  |
| "Kill the body and the head will die." |
"If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation."
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"Writing a book just might be the hardest thing I've ever done, besides trying to get laid in college."
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"I don't think that [children are] any more resilient than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies."
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"I like Paris. My problem is I don't like Parisians."
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"Anger is a gift."
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| Died 01/11 | Died 01/12 | Died 01/13 | Death Dates |