Kara Walker Quotes

I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.

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• I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Family
  • Team
  • Support

• Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!

  

  Fay Wray
  • Up
  • Done
  • She

• The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Home
  • Step

• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.

  

  Indiana Evans
  • Great
  • Always
  • Thought

• I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Long
  • Career
  • Golf

• When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • English
  • Difficult
  • Criticism

• When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Life
  • Time
  • Blessed

• The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • First
  • Holiday
  • Unfair

• I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that's when things changed as far as going to the NFL.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Couple
  • First
  • Year

• When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Men
  • Women
  • Cooking

• I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Way
  • Movies
  • Scared

• The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Know
  • Question

• People automatically assume that because you're an actor, you're a blank canvas 24/7. But I can't wear what everyone else wears. If I went to an audition, I'd wear what the character would wear, but the moment I'm done with the audition or done filming, I go back into my high-waisteds.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Done
  • Character

• My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Speak
  • Listen

• Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.

  

  Patricia Norris
  • Living
  • Through
  • Heat

• I had so many faux-parents.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Parents
  • Many
  • Had

• All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

  

  Aaliyah
  • God
  • Hope
  • Hands

• My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Black
  • Rich
  • Flying

• First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.

  

  James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
  • Time
  • Question
  • Boss

• Just because the rest of the people in Hollywood don't do their stunts doesn't mean I don't.

  

  Jason Statham
  • People
  • Rest

• I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Black
  • Never
  • How