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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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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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'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.
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I believe that 'MasterChef' brings something more to the table, so to speak, than simply being another reality food TV show. My hope is that it will inspire America to get more involved in the food they eat, how it is prepared.
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You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
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Repetition doesn't create memories. New experiences do.
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Communication is the root of marital success from which a strong union can grow, and noncommunicatio n is the rock on which the ship will bash out her keel.
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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.
