I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.


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Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their ...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no othe...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
When placed in command, take charge.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too m...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
A great deal of the capability of an army is its dedication to its cause and its will to fight. You ...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if i...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the peopl...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
The Depression was remarkable because you had nothing, and the salaries, when you got a job, were ve...
NORMAN LLOYD
All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.
NORMAN WISDOM
With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and...
NORMAN JEWISON
Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British ...
GREG NORMAN
I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.
NORMAN PARKINSON
Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox breth...
NORMAN LAMM
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. ...
NORMAN COUSINS
In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsib...
NORMAN COUSINS
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
NORMAN COUSINS
Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Je...
NORMAN DAVIES
I went camping one time when I was twelve, to the Great Lakes. My friend stepped in really deep mudd...
NORMAN REEDUS
I've been camping and stuff, but if you left me in the woods I'd probably just curl up and c...
NORMAN REEDUS
The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationa...
NORMAN DAVIES
I've been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler's paintings, too. I lik...
NORMAN REEDUS
I voted for Nader, and I have no doubts at all that it was the right thing to do because the Nader c...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
When wheat is ripening properly, when the wind is blowing across the field, you can hear the beards ...
NORMAN BORLAUG
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consent...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must mak...
NORMAN ANGELL
Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own m...
NORMAN ANGELL