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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In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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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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Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.
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None of my movies have ever made any money, so it's not about commercial success for me. It's always the same thing. I want to create something valuable, something unusual and different that the world has never seen.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.
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O let the organ, many-voiced, sing boldly, O let it roar like spring's first thunderstorm! My half-closed eyes over your young bride's shoulder Will meet your eyes just once and then no more.
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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.
