Mark Bradford Quotes
About the time I was 7, I got really into black-exploitation films, so I made my own Wonder Woman, but I made her black.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.
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I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.
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Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts.
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I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
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The U.K. is so important to me. It's everything - it's my home. I love America, but it's so important for me to be here and be an artist and be well known here.
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In mindfulness, we start to see the world as it is, not as we expect it to be, how we want it to be, or what we fear it might become. These
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About the time I was 7, I got really into black-exploitation films, so I made my own Wonder Woman, but I made her black.
