Karamo Brown Quotes
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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I love books.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.
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I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.
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Nobody's reported my victories, my accomplishments, my true personality - the way I treat all people.
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Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church. There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner.
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I got started on my spiritual path when I was a kid. My mom taught me how to meditate and brought me to ashrams and spiritual circles.
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It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.
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We live in a society that has a long history of not valuing people of color or women.