Kara Walker Quotes
My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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My hand still shakes when I sign autographs. I still go and sit in the movies like everyone else and look up there and go 'God! Movie stars! Wow!' And I'm in this business. I walk out there just fascinated, and I always want to stay like that. I'm just a little kid going to these movies, and I don't ever want to change.
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'Brotherhood of the Wolf' is a very important movie because it represents something new. The director Christophe Gans came up with the idea of taking a French legend and making it some kind of really strange, almost Chinese action movie. The result is something that I haven't seen anywhere before.
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Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.
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Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.
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There's a conflict between what's in your mind and what's in your body.
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My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.
