David Salle Quotes
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We strivin' for perfection.
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.
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'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
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I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.
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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
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No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.
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It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
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The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before.
