Dawn Angeliqué Richard (Dawn Richard) Quotes
		
	 
	
		
	
	
	
		There's a fine line between artist and product. I don't think the industry purposely does it, but I think that's just the way they maneuver. You have to be careful that doesn't become your story, where you become a product, and your art is tarnished because you're just seen as a tool to make money.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dawn Angeliqué Richard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Zhang Ziyi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tariq Ramadan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barry Eisler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				A. S. Byatt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				D. H. Lawrence 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Xavier Niel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Aristotle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Randy Jackson 
			 
			
				Breakfast Club  
			
			
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Larry Niven 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Christopher Buckley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's a fine line between artist and product. I don't think the industry purposely does it, but I think that's just the way they maneuver. You have to be careful that doesn't become your story, where you become a product, and your art is tarnished because you're just seen as a tool to make money. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dawn Angeliqué Richard