Omari Hardwick Quotes
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
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I don't have any nicknames.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.
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'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.
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I try to stay focused.
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What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.
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I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
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Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.
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The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
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I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
