It just didn't gel with me ... A friend suggested I start oil painting. I was 23 when I started going through how-to books and (watching TV painting instructor) Bob Ross. It was more of a hobby. 
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Quotes about Bob Ross
You know Bob Ross (the PBS painting maven)? It's a cross between Bob Ross and Salvador Dali.
was said
During the campaign McCain has aged dramatically. Like Dorian Gray, the bargains he has made with his conscience are reflected in the mirror. He has developed a strange Jimmy Cagney rasp and new verbal eccentricities that seem to have fused the speaking styles of Bob Dole and Ross Perot.
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in Sploid
Bill Clinton became president because of one thing: Ross Perot. Last time I checked, Bob Barr/Ron Paul were not garnering 19% of the Independent/center-right vote.
was said
in Althouse
The way that Bob made his paintings, and the way he paints in particular, is pretty similar to the way that our band makes a record ... Bob Ross starts his paintings with simple little smudges and blotches, making 'happy trees' or 'cute little bridges.' But when it’s finished, and his blotches take form, we see that his paintings are actually intricate landscapes.
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in Wired
An Oklahoma church canceled a controversial gun giveaway for teenagers at a weekend youth conference. Windsor Hills Baptist had planned to give away a semiautomatic assault rifle until one of the event’s organizers was unable to attend. The church’s youth pastor, Bob Ross, said it’s a way of trying to encourage young people to attend the event.
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in AlterNet.org
Quotes from articles mentioning Bob Ross
You have to recognize those pressures and those requirements and pick places where you can satisfy them with little or no impact on the residential neighborhoods
said Mike Guilford
in Miami Herald
A lot of my writing is very influenced by what's around me. There's a lot of archetypes involved: rivers, mountains, trees, dry rivers, lakes frozen over. All this strikes a certain emotion in peoples minds.
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in Spinner.com
