Mickalene Thomas Quotes
I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking at the videos there's a direct relationship to the paintings.
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In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like 'The Day After Tomorrow' where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn't be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.
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It's funny. You travel all over the world, and you wind up with a guy from your hometown.
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When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub.
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Most of the available Indian films in Australia are Bollywood. I did not watch them. In my early days, I watched Satyajit Ray's 'Apu Trilogy,' which was a beautiful take on social realism.
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I'm a workaholic.
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In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children's books. In Japan, everything is art. They don't say painting is better than ceramics or dress design.
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The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
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If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.
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I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking at the videos there's a direct relationship to the paintings.
