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Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast
for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
Ronald Reagan


I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn\'t
say any other way -- things I had no words for.
Georgia O\'Keeffe

That\'s like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think
Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.
Mel Gibson

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,

So do our minutes hasten to their end;

Each changing place with that which goes before,

In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

Nativity, once in the main of light,

Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown\'d,

Crooked eclipses \'gainst his glory fight,

And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth

And delves the parallels in beauty\'s brow,

Feeds on the rarities of nature\'s truth,

And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:

  And yet to times in hope, my verse shall stand.

  Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.

 	--William Shakespeare