Paul Kane Quotes
Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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Whenever I don't' have to wear makeup, it's a good day.
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I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
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I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.
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The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.
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I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.
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It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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The subject of Stalin's death permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation-both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents-and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more.
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No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians. So why is marijuana outlawed while politicians are still legal?
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The guns are turning away from Europe and Russia and Iran and Iraq and they're turning to us.
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The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from.
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Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.
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You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.
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When I want to support a film starring actors I like, I purchase several tickets at the box office - even if I can't stay for the movie.
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My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.
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I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me.
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About Van Gogh.. a man who is on fire, a torch. His sincerity is absolute. His best painting is the grain field where he kills himself. There we find ourselves at the border of the art of painting. We cannot go further.
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As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.
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How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
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I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.
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Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.
