Kara Walker Quotes
To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
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I have to be able to rap. I don't have the look. I don't have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That's not me. I have to be able to rap - there is no other choice, or else I get eaten alive.
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I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.
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I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.
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I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.
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Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
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Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.
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I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.
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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
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If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.
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Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.
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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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If you have a cool personality, the photographer will want to work with you because he or she will have more fun on set.
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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
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Liberals chose Man. Conservatives chose God.
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I play outsiders. That's just the way it's gone for me, and I think that's fantastic. I like it because I've always been interested in how the other guy thinks. I want to know what's going on in his head.
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To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
