Faith Ringgold Quotes
I'm not presumptuous enough to feel that people are going to feel what I have in mind, so I tell a story, you know, let them read something, that doesn't change, that as I have said it, you know, so that's the way I feel about the viewer, the viewer has a mind of their own and eyes of their own and they're going to see it their way, I just hope they look.
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affects other banks that have lent to this borrower. They are now less likely to be repaid and so can't as readily lend to their own customers.
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A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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When I entertain, I want to have fun. But I'm also a control person. I don't go in for those everyone-in-the-kitchen cooking scenes. So if I want to be with my guests, I have to do everything - or nearly everything - in advance.
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I'm not presumptuous enough to feel that people are going to feel what I have in mind, so I tell a story, you know, let them read something, that doesn't change, that as I have said it, you know, so that's the way I feel about the viewer, the viewer has a mind of their own and eyes of their own and they're going to see it their way, I just hope they look.
