Carrie Mae Weems Quotes
My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing group that used to open for Sam Cooke. There was always music in our house, but there wasn't much art around.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.
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I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.
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Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
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Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.
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You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.
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I get so into the moment.
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McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.
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I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds.
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Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.
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My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.
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I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.
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My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing group that used to open for Sam Cooke. There was always music in our house, but there wasn't much art around.
