Kasi Lemmons Quotes

Honestly, I do spend most of my time between films trying to get the next one made.

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• Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Work
  • Religious
  • Critical

• I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Always
  • Sense
  • Curiosity

• A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Up
  • Never
  • Child

• You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • You
  • Financial
  • Ability

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Hope
  • New
  • Drug

• You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Work
  • Know
  • Day

• I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Difference
  • Second Place

• Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Never
  • Vision
  • Look

• Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • She
  • Me

• I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Win
  • Gold

• I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Luck
  • Russia
  • Washing

• I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Like
  • Living
  • Disappointed

• What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Life
  • Time
  • Care

• Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Never
  • Moment
  • New York

• In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Fantasy
  • Luxury
  • Middle East

• When you're younger, you have ideas and visions of what you're going to be like when you're older and what love is going to be like and who you're gonna be married to and all of these different things.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Love
  • Like
  • Ideas

• When I decided to become a Christian and decided to change my life and just totally quit screwing up, it was like, 'Wow, why didn't I do this before?' No hiding anything. I just felt so much better, not only about myself, but my future, my family. It was awesome, and it didn't take me long to realize that.

  

  Jim Kelly
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, Madonna's and shameless nudes.. ..has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition. I have transformed myself into the nullity of forms and pulled myself out of the circle of things, out of the circle-horizon in which the artist and forms of nature are locked.

  

  Kazimir Malevich
  • Nature
  • Painting
  • Habit

• You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Time
  • Painting

• A time comes when silence is betrayal.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Time
  • Silence
  • Betrayal

• I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Honestly, I do spend most of my time between films trying to get the next one made.

  

  Kasi Lemmons
  • Time
  • Films
  • Honestly