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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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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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 just want people to be affected by the music. I'm really affected by my surroundings and put everything in my music - what I'm not getting and what I desire. I want it to be uncompromised... almost a spiritual thing.
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I started writing out all of my feelings, and people asked me, 'Have you ever thought of recording your music?' It was something I'd always thought of, but I'd never really had the confidence.
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Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.
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Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.
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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.
