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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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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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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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
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But patience can't be acquired overnight. It's just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it, to push its limits.
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I don't just want to be that guy who throws hard.
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A lot of people have an opinion. If you listen to them too much, your work will get influenced, and you make no one happy.
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And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.
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The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.
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One Indian-inspired favourite of mine is mashed potato mixed with lemon juice, breadcrumbs, coriander and chilli, shaped into patties, fried and served with chutney and yoghurt.
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It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.
