Ishmael Reed Quotes
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
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I feel like now fashion is just part of how I think about everything. When I send out a mood board to our contributors every month about our monthly theme, there are photos from our fashion shows, but there are also film stills and album art.
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When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
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For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.
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Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
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Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.
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My costumes were made for sex appeal not for women.
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
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I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.
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Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.
