If, for some reason, I cannot bear to work on something that needs to get done, I'm not … - David Small

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I would love to do comedy. I'm actually really animated and goofy. I talk with my hands so intensely.

David Small

If, for some reason, I cannot bear to work on something that needs to get done, I'm not going to force that. I'll just take a mental vacation. I think the best solution sometimes to working out a problem is to walk squarely away from it.

Bear, Done, Thinking, Vacation, Work, Work Out

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I began drawing probably when I was - around the same time everybody else puts a mark on a piece of paper with a crayon - when I was two, probably. The difference between me and everybody else is, I kept doing it for the rest of my life; there was something very satisfying about that.

Crayon, Difference, Drawing, Same, Time

I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult.

Beings, Character, Funeral, Parent, Parents, Understand

Humanization and coming to understand somebody as a human being is about as good a kind of forgiveness as you can get, I think.

Good, Human, Kind, Somebody, Thinking

Even after the age of 50 it was impossible for me to see my mother as a human being. I felt she was a monster, and she had subtly been influencing my behavior and my thoughts and my dreams for so long that she was kind of a monster; she was a demon. And when I brought her back to life, I could feel that malevolent presence around me again, that woman who was totally incapable of giving nurturing to anybody, and, you know, her selfishness and her withdrawn indifference to everything but her own needs.

Brought, Dream, Influencing, Long, Mother, See

I found great value in teaching students from the outset of their studies how to draw very realistically. Otherwise, you're starting deep into the alphabet instead of having started at the start. If you discard essential things like drawing, design, color and so on at the beginning, then you're just sort of floating out in space, without any basis to work from.

Beginning, Deep, Design, Having, Students, Teaching

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I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education.

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I would love to do comedy. I'm actually really animated and goofy. I talk with my hands so intensely.

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Paulo Coelho

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested. ’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film.

Believe, Book, Character, Interested, Likes, Saying