Carrie Mae Weems Quotes
How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.
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I am not opposed to the art market. I have lots of friends who are collectors. But the whole idea of the art market is complex. Sadly we have a situation where auction houses and secondary market dealers are creating a lot of confusion and unnecessary pollution.
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Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.
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Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.
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Unfortunately, I'm not 185 and 6-3 and can run and catch fade routes all game. I do the dirty work. I'm all good. I'm thankful for it. Somebody's got to do it.
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I work on quiet call nights in the hospital, on airplanes and on my sailboat when I have a bit of time - I cram it into wherever it will fit.
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How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.
