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There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Age: 88 †
Born: 1899
Born: September 23
Died: 1988
Died: April 17
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I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
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The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
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If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
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What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.
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I still want to do my work. I still want to do my livingness. And I have lived. I have been fulfilled. I recognized what I had, and I never sold it short. And I ain't through yet.
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If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.
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It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
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I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
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Character is the architect of the being.
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A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
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It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.
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My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.
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