Talib Kweli Quotes
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I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
Tananarive Due -
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
J. I. Packer -
I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
Yoko Ono -
If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.
Carly Fiorina -
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. Salinger
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
Wendell Willkie -
The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.
Zaha Hadid -
The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.
Gary Miller Bad Brains -
Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
iO Tillett Wright -
Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.
Kat Edmonson -
If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.
Gavin Newsom -
Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
Fetty Wap -
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
Ad Reinhardt -
I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
Sam Brownback -
I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
Lady Gaga -
When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.
Carlton Cuse
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A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
Edith Evans -
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
Albert Einstein -
To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength and inspiration to carry on the best human impulses which should bind us together for a better world.
Walt Disney -
A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
Madeleine L'Engle -
But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
Talib Kweli Black Star