William Kentridge Quotes
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My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.
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I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
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I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'
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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
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I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that's part of football. That's like a firefighter knowing he is going to go into a fire at some point. You know you are going to be put in danger's way, and you accept that risk, and you do it.
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I can be a guy's guy and go to a game. But at the end of the night, I can still get dressed up for a date. There are a million different personalities that are part of me.
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I only started to understand the concept of "environmental protection" 14 years ago. I was an ambassador for a charity event, and the staff told me that the consumption of disposable chopsticks in China, per year, could result in the devastation of unimaginable acres of forest.
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When I think about greatness I just know Ayrton Senna. He was great.
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Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.
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Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.
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On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.
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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
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Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.
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I'm a pretty emotional person.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a rabble of insane monastics to be dragged to a violent death.... Man has made himself a law unto himself, publishing it in his pretended "heavenly" revelations, dogmas, and statutes. Woman is not constructing a law unto herself, and she is putting it forth, not on a pretendedly supernatural, but on a natural basis.
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Forgetting is natural, remembering is the effort one makes.
