Carrie Mae Weems Quotes
I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'
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There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit on the beach and read or scuba dive and sail. I do a lot of that. I still go backpacking around Europe in the summers and staying in hostels. I love that.
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The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
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Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.
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If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.
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The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
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I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.
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The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.
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I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.
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People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.
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Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
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When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
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Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
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O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world You have for me, give it to my friends. You are enough for me.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.
