William Kentridge Quotes
It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.
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I would love to be a role model.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.
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The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.
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I write what I write.
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Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.
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Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
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On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.
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I love the food in Thailand because of the exotic spices they use. Their style of cooking is unique to their culture and always amazing.
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Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.
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Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send me some chocolates or something to thank me.
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I'm actually a hippy in real life. I had three dreadlocks on the back of my head once. They were spawning.
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The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.
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There's always going to be somebody that you consider maybe more beautiful. But nine times out of ten here in L.A., that beauty isn't home grown. It's usually manufactured. It sort of encourages me to work more within myself because I think that's not what appeals to me. Plastic and tons of makeup.
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I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.
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I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.
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It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.
