Exene Cervenka Quotes
I'm very American. I love our culture. I love the pieces, the most mundane stuff about our culture, and I think you can make the best art out of an ordinary item that is usually thrown away or people don't care about.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
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I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.
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I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.
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LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.
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I haven't worn one for a long time, but I look pretty good in a suit.
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That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do.
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Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.
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I once got sacked for laughing ... mind you, I was driving a hearse at the time.
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Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.
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Both my parents came from North Carolina, in Warren County. My mother had a feeling that there was greater culture in North Carolina than obtained in Norfolk, Virginia, plus the fact she just didn't like the lowland-lying climate there.
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I'm very American. I love our culture. I love the pieces, the most mundane stuff about our culture, and I think you can make the best art out of an ordinary item that is usually thrown away or people don't care about.
