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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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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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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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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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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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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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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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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Are you woman enough to be my man?
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on.
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I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.
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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.
