Wadada Leo Smith Quotes
I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.
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I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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I love movies and I think that we wouldn't ever stop making videos just because people aren't watching them. I think that's just kinda sad. It would be cool to spend a lot of money, but we'll always make videos just for ourselves.
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My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.
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I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.
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Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.
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I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
