Bill Atkinson Quotes
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
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Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.
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It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
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There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
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If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.
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My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.
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In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.
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Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.
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Most of the scripts that land on my desk are stuff you read and go, 'Is someone really gonna make this?'
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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With '2 Dope Queens,' we get the opportunity to love and enjoy each other and have fun being best friends and being women of color and talking about our personal experience. Also, we give an opportunity to elevate voices for many different people that otherwise would not get such a large platform.
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If I'm doing a logo, I'll do it in black and white. Once the form is feeling right, only then do I start exploring the color palettes. A good example was the process of rebranding the Salvador Dali Museum. I did at least 100 versions in black and white.
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I'm not interested in pleasing color; I'm interested in exact color.
