KAWS (Brian Donnelly) Quotes
Graffiti is like building a career. And there is a dialogue with the other artists out there mostly fellow writers because a lot of people who don't paint just see a blur when they look at it.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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'Castle' isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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There are two types of women out there: there's the kind of woman who finds something nice and likes to keep it to herself, and then there's the other type, which is me, who wants to share.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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Unlike settled, patriarchal societies such as classical Greece and Rome, where women stayed home to weave and mind children, the lives of nomadic steppe tribes centered on horses and archery.
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When people are absurdly tall, they command everyone's attention when they walk into a room. Nobody's ever dismissive of somebody for being too tall.
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Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.
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I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.
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The smell of the library was always the same – the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup'.
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Graffiti is like building a career. And there is a dialogue with the other artists out there mostly fellow writers because a lot of people who don't paint just see a blur when they look at it.
