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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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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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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As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.
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I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.
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I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
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In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.
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Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.
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Almost every year there is one package that goes out, and this year it is yet to be nailed down. There's a bunch of people talking about different things, but there is no definitive hip-hop package out there. We'll know probably in the next four weeks whether a package is going to form or not.
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If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
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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.
