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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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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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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I do not know a lot about football. I guess I'm a Patriots fan because I'm from Boston? But I'm getting to know a lot more about it, and I'm finding it fascinating.
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You couldn’t unsee a thing once it was seen, unknow it once it was known.
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No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?
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The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.
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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.
