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Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them. Jerry Saltz
Work Art Game People Will Pay Run Exactly Only Know Bidding Houses Auction How How Many People Person Wants Them Gallery Who Many Works Rigged Need
I grew up in a lot of different homes when I was younger: my parents rented trailers and small, boxy houses set high on cement block pillars. Jesmyn Ward
Parents High Small Houses Pillars Block Lot Up Trailers Cement Different Grew Younger Homes Set
Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails. Jessica Stockholder
Skin Painting Plumbing Wiring Nails Houses Fiction Paint
I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience. Jim Carrey
Me Experience Money Conservative Somebody Go Away Wild Had Investments Like Know Safe Houses Go Been Very Blow Might Away Things Ton
I've never had a record in my life. People would buy somebody a record for their birthday or Christmas or something like that. People used to play records in their houses. I used to borrow. I only had about 10 records. That's all I needed. And I'd borrow them from anybody. Jimmy Savile
Life Christmas Buy Birthday People Somebody My Life Would Record Borrow About Something Only Records Never Had Like Houses Anybody Them Used Play Needed
When we were bringing 'Raisin' onto Broadway, our first stop was at Arena in D.C. Several things struck me about being in D.C.: One was the enormous poverty around the capital at that time - it was 1973, '74 - and I was stunned by people literally living in poverty, with holes in their houses and other things. Joe Morton
Time Me People Poverty First Living Enormous Other Our Several Broadway About Struck Arena Onto Stunned Houses Around Were Stop Being Literally Holes Capital Things Bringing Raisin
The feature space is a spectacle space. It's about getting people out of their houses to go to theater when we all have a lot of things in our home now that occupy our attention. Joe Russo
Home People Space Our Out About Feature Attention Houses Occupy Go Lot Getting Theater Now Things Spectacle
People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. John Betjeman
People Back More Houses Than Front Interesting Public Much Gardens Railways
Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make. John Lescroart
Important Single Aggressive Relationships Writer New Most Make Houses Opinion York Move New York In My Opinion Acquiring Agent Communicative Successful Who Actual Publishing Honest
You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I see their platinum discs hanging in the toilet. They're just there on the walls glaring at you when you're trying to be occupied with other things. John Lydon
You Walls Other See Some Superstars Glaring Know Houses Occupied Been Trying Hanging Just Disgusted Really Toilet Platinum Things
I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it. John Malkovich
Life Great You People Money School Mind Pretending My Life Gone Other Sold Sums Would Great Life Driven Like Houses Around Been Wondered Egg Getting Going Often Rolls Buses Acting Paid Painted Ridiculous
Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites. John Prescott
More Higher Policy Houses Built Intelligent Than Affordable Sites Moment Why Actually
We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing. John Prescott
Changes Taken Like Houses Housing Said Making Target Decent Them Fundamental Million
Things that are unique and rare will cost a lot of money. Houses in East Hampton and Malibu will cost a lot of money because there just aren't that many of them. The value of sports has appreciated because it's the only thing that people have to watch live. John Skipper
Sports People Money Will Value Rare Live East Cost Only Houses Because Hampton Lot Malibu Just The Only Thing Them Many Unique Thing Things Watch Appreciated
Title deeds establish and protect ownership of our houses, while security of property is as important to the proprietors of Tesco and Sainsbury's as it is to their customers. John Sulston
Property Important Ownership Our Security Protect Houses Establish While Title Customers Deeds
Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses. John Updike
Happy Experience Living Had Since Most House Houses Years America American Lacks Happy Experience Thirteen
My parents always kept us in the house. We weren't allowed to spend the night at other people's houses. We were sheltered kids. Jon Jones
People Parents Other Spend Kids Allowed House Houses Always Sheltered Were Us Night Kept
Building houses and mansion ranching is not ranching. Jon Tester
Building Houses Mansion
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Selfish Oppression Money Other Others Consisting Cost Almost Houses Always False Acquired Persons Lands Riches Means Used Thereafter
I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about. Joseph Kanon
Think Atmospheric About More Writers Disappointing Most Wrote Houses Places Interesting Much
My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories. Juan Felipe Herrera
Woman Mother Poetry Cleaned Houses Always Texas Stories Loved Who
In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans. Juan Williams
Hurt People Real Estate Value Down Older Market Saw Pension Along Blew Principally Houses Real Go Up Estate Plans Who Older People
I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer. Judy Collins
Success Myself Coffee Thought Country Think Television No Idea Records Idea Terms Singer Houses Just Storyteller Sang Even Early
The great houses of Britain have, for centuries, been the guardians of much of our history, not just of the families who built and lived in them, but of the people who worked there, of the local area, of all of us. Julian Fellowes
Great History People Guardians Local Our Area Houses Built Been Families Just Them Centuries Us Worked Much Who Lived Britain
I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses. Julianne Hough
Abandoned Would Would-Be Instead Invited Parties Houses Get
Franschhoek Valley was, in recent memory, a simple place with some notable vineyards and two or three streets of Victorian cottages and a few older, thatched houses. The valley was settled early in the 1680s by Huguenots fleeing repression. Justin Cartwright
Memory Simple Three Few Older Settled Valley Some Houses Repression Place Notable Victorian Fleeing Streets Early Recent Two
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