Marlene Dumas Quotes
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed.
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We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
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The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.
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It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
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'Can't Stop Dancing' is this other side of me that I was ready to introduce to my fans, which is like, after you hang out with me, you start to see that I can be chilled and relaxed, and I'm a little bit more mature for my age.
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Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.
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I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.
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I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
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The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.
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I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.
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He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.
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I've got the best shoe guy in the business.
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I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.
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He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him. Hence, the cost of production of a workman is restricted, almost entirely, to the means of subsistence that he requires for his maintenance, and for the propagation of his race.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Heaven unites again the links that Earth has broken!For on Earth so much is needed, but in Heaven Love is all!
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You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.
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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
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It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
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You've got to know who you are before you step into this business, because if you're trying to find it, you'll probably wind up being somebody else, that you probably don't even like. 2
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The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
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There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.
