Kali Uchis (Karly-Marina Loaiza) Quotes
As an artist, you have to work hard for things that you can't really hold in your hand. I work not for money but for my career, to expand myself as an artist. Every video I make, it's not making me any money; it's just because I want to expand.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.
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I don't do meetings.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.
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I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.
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I love to tell stories. It's a delight for me.
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How can we ask for our young stars to have a high level of responsibility if we are not demonstrating that same level of responsibility towards them?
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I actually don't like westerns much. I like good westerns, but it isn't my preferred genre. There are all kinds of westerns: acid westerns, '70s westerns, Nicholas Ray's neurotic westerns. The ones I tend to like are nutso westerns.
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I never learned to speak Yiddish, ever.
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I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.
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As an artist, you have to work hard for things that you can't really hold in your hand. I work not for money but for my career, to expand myself as an artist. Every video I make, it's not making me any money; it's just because I want to expand.
