James Carl Inkanish, Jr. (Jimmy Carl Black) Quotes
I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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The world is too violent right now.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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One thing that the audience, and perhaps critics, aren't aware of is that, especially in a film like 'Moonlight,' you always shoot a lot more footage than makes the cut of the film.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
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I regard many of the neoconservatives as personal friends, but that's not stopped them from behaving with extraordinary viciousness towards those of us who raised the immigration issue.
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While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.
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It's exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you've got to up your game. Working with good people is always good.
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Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
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I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.
