Kara Walker Quotes
It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
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I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.
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I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages.
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Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
