Alain LeRoy Locke Quotes
Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
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I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.
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Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
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I've always looked old for my age.
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I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.
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A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.
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Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in them.
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Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.
