Kara Walker Quotes
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
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I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
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People love to be told what they know already.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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In short, Coltrane's tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist.
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I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.
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The Land of Israel will be small, but the people of Israel will make it great. Not in opulence, but in eminence will their destiny be fulfilled, and the elixir of their pride will be distilled not out of dominion or far-flung borders, but out of the faithful and skillful building of the good society.
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I hardly wear any makeup.
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Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
