Xaviera Simmons Quotes
My studio works in cycles. I am consistent with all of the practices, but I give attention to one part for a certain amount of time. I say, "Okay, I'm making performances," and sometimes that means I can't be making photographic works. As I'm maturing as an artist, years have passed and I feel that I'm becoming a better craftsperson in multiple fields, but that takes time. Also, because I trained as an actor, I hold this thing about how an actor prepares and therefore I try to prepare for all of my tasks.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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I think being busy is a healthy thing.
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Personally, I don't wear fur.
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It's quite a thrill to be playing a hero.
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Nonne emori per virtutem praestat quam vitam miseram atque inhonestam, ubi alienae superbiae ludibrio fueris, per dedecus amittere?
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I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.
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A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.
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Steve Jobs is like a brother to me and he's one of the founders of Pixar, and when the first iPad came out, I got one right away.
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I'm a huge fan of the '70s. I'm obsessed with the music of that time.
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It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.
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'When a man leaves a woman, especially when it was perceived that he has left for a piece of ass-a good one!-there are 50 percent of the population who will love the woman who was left,' he told me.
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I've never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to be a famous person or anything like that, and I think my fans know that as well.
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I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.
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Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?
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It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.
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There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.
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I think the performances that really communicate with me are the ones where I don't feel like I'm watching someone and thinking: "They're doing some really good acting." It's when I'm literally completely consumed by the story-telling and the actor or actress is evoking something in me. I think that's so powerful and cinema and TV has so much power.
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My studio works in cycles. I am consistent with all of the practices, but I give attention to one part for a certain amount of time. I say, "Okay, I'm making performances," and sometimes that means I can't be making photographic works. As I'm maturing as an artist, years have passed and I feel that I'm becoming a better craftsperson in multiple fields, but that takes time. Also, because I trained as an actor, I hold this thing about how an actor prepares and therefore I try to prepare for all of my tasks.
