Maud Welzen Quotes
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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My father is a teacher; my mother was a telecom employee. I come from Palermo; I was raised in Ethiopia. I am homosexual. I didn't go to film school.
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Short fiction encourages experimentation, and it's fun to play with form and try experiments that may or may not work out.
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I really would like to work with kids if I was not a model.
