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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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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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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I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.
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The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.
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The Hore-Laval proposals were not so frightfully different from those put forward by the Committee of Five. But the latter were of respectable parentage: and the Paris ones were too much like the off-the-stage arrangements of nineteenth-century diplomacy.
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My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.
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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.
