Maira Kalman Quotes
I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
Quotes to Explore
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
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In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.
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May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions in continuance of those principles which have placed her so high in the annals of history and among the nations of the earth.
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You’ll know what to say when the time comes. That’s the art, eh? What to say, and when to say it. And the rest is silence.
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The world is turning,I hope it don't turn away.
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The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
