Kara Walker Quotes
I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.
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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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When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.
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Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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To me, country songs are simple.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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I decide intuitively what I want to do. When directors like Imtiaz Ali, Ayan Mukerji, Anurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap, who have stories to tell, come to me, why would I not be a part of it?
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I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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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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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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Andre Recke and I and my mom worked very hard to really get good music that I related to and was age-appropriate for me and wasn't just cheesy pop stuff.
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Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.
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With homosexuality added, it would be sparkling, unassimilable.
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I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.
