Ralph Bakshi Quotes
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store.
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I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you’re not an entrepreneur.
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My parents are very humble people who have simple lives... they live in a pleasant little town in China.
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The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.
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As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
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I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
