R. B. Kitaj Quotes

I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die.

R. B. Kitaj

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'

  

  Mara Liasson
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• Most actors can't make any kind of living.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
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• I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive.

  

  Marat Safin
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• If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
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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.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
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• The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

  

  Gary Zukav
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• Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.

  

  Randy Newman
  • God
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• I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

  

  Jackie Robinson
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• I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Time
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• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
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• I think that liberals need to grow up.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Up
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• If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
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• I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Time
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• It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.

  

  Kate Williams
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• We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?

  

  Dalton Trumbo
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• You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

  

  Mike Singletary
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• No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They might be trying something they need to explore.

  

  Amanda Hale
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• In the public, it seems to be painted that when minorities get pregnant, they need to get abortions, especially when it comes to teen pregnancy. It's like, when black girls are pregnant, it's like a statistic, but when white girls get pregnant, they get a TV show.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • Black
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• I've done it 30 years. I don't know what there is to gain by doing it 40. But I think there is something about doing it over that length of time that says something. That's seven U.S. presidents and five presidents of McDonald's.

  

  Don Novello
  • Time
  • Done

• I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die.

  

  R. B. Kitaj
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Die