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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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
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Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
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And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life
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We live in a society that has a long history of not valuing people of color or women.
