Fred Tomaselli Quotes
The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.
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The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.
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One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.
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One of my early memories is of a white girl twirling in a circle. I realized later on that it was from that show 'Small Wonder' - the oldest I could have been when I was watching it was four or five, but it's one I think about a lot. It's stuck in my head, this terrible Fox television show.
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One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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My mother and father instilled in me a sense of purpose not defined by today's street obsession with bling, cars or cribs.
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There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.
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The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.
