N. Scott Momaday Quotes
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together.
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I used to get these horrible feelings; like, I just wanted to rip my body apart, and I don't want to have to go through that experience again. It's really, really awful.
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Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.
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Die Leugner des Zufalls. - 'Kein Sieger glaubt an den Zufall.'
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
