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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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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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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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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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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Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.
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After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
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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 idea of recklessly spending money - even though it sounds like it's lots of fun, it's fashion - isn't interesting to me. It is a business.
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Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
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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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Love me or hate me, I always speak the truth.
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People think I write weird, but there are people at Death Equinox that make me look like Danielle Steele.
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Good health is true wealth.
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Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated, and the Natives neither confounded the persons nor divided the substance.
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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.
