William Kentridge Quotes
The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral questions...in our heads seem to rise to the surface as a consequence of the process
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
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I don't like possessions.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.'
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My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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I like Everton. If I'm going to cheer for that kind of football team, I'm going to cheer for Everton. But the Seahawks are my passion.
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My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
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I love '80s horror.
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I don't need to speak about N'Golo; everyone knows about him. He's everywhere. I think, sometimes when I'm on the pitch, I see him twice. One on the left, one on the right. I think I'm playing with twins!
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I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral questions...in our heads seem to rise to the surface as a consequence of the process
