Camille Henrot Quotes
The political cartoon, in a way, is one of the highest forms of expression about our times. I don't believe in dramatic statements when it comes to political critique. It doesn't communicate in a way that's subversive enough.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.
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The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.
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There are two clever tricks men know. One is to make much of nothing. The second is to make nothing of much.
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Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
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The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.
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I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.
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The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was not going to countenance a return to the status quo ante. This resolution does that. And now we're going to see who is for peace and who isn't.
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As black Americans continue to be insulted and dismissed by protected white liberals, the Black Talented Tenth will continue to benefit from political donations, speaking engagements, national media presence, accolades as the official black leaders, and perpetual gigs on MSNBC and CNN.
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
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The political cartoon, in a way, is one of the highest forms of expression about our times. I don't believe in dramatic statements when it comes to political critique. It doesn't communicate in a way that's subversive enough.
