It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business as it were and I use almost pure turpentine to start with adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help and that's my method.
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
When I was in college I was debating to try my hand at show business or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.
I started out mopping floors waiting tables and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation I put my name forward and ran for office.
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends his pleasures patrons and acquaintances are his capital.
Washington has to become an ally of business not the opposition of business.
What we actually learn from any given set of circumstances determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father or like me?
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Try try try and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
As I approach my 88th birthday it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears among other appurtenances aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.
One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
It's impossible I think however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
The promises of this world are for the most part vain phantoms and to confide in one's self and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are not the worst of what Europe has become.
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts or at best part of the public character or at worst catchwords.
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength membership strength and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work.