Marlene Dumas Quotes
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.
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I'm just looking to be in the best movies possible and do the best work possible and try to become a better actor and make better movies.
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You can experience play at work, not because you're messing around or wasting time or something, but because you're looking really deeply and seriously at things and asking what is possible, what can be done with them, what new ideas might emerge?
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Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.
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The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.
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I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.
