Anne Truitt Quotes
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
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I love being outside, I do a lot of hunting.
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I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed.
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I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
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I walked around feeling, in a sense, that people of color, we began at the bottom of a slave ship. We were enslaved; we picked cotton. There was Honest Abe, who wore a top hat and was taller than anyone and who said, 'Enough is enough; slavery must end.' And then, black people could stand up again. But after that, we didn't catch up.
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I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.
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I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.
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I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.
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Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.
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I'll sing outside your window. I'm as old fashioned as they come.
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I do believe that there will be a clash between East and West. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think that it will be based upon the color of the skin….
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Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
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I have learned very quickly where my strengths are, and color coordination of particular things is not a strong suit.
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We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.
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I don't think because I hang out with enough black people, I'm gonna turn black. What kind of rationalization is that? I'm just friends with people that I like. I don't care what skin color you are.
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I am so grateful that the public has given me this gift. They look at me as a person - not as a race or a color. The word for it is freedom - to be accepted as me.
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When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Kandinsky points out in his book On the Spiritual in Art that Theosophy (in its true sense; not as it generally appears) is yet another expression of the same spiritual movement which we are now seeing in painting.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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I have been flooded with color on the inside, drab on the outside.
