Saweetie (Diamonté Quiava Valentin Harper) Quotes
Especially as an artist, the creative freedom we have makes us who we are. We're human beings-we're gonna mess up sometimes. I definitely feel like people should continue being who they are. As long as you're staying true to who you are, that's super important.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.
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Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
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We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
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Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
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I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.
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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
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Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
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I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.
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There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
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I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
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A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.
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I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.
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Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.
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A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.
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Especially as an artist, the creative freedom we have makes us who we are. We're human beings-we're gonna mess up sometimes. I definitely feel like people should continue being who they are. As long as you're staying true to who you are, that's super important.
