Kara Walker Quotes

I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.

Kara Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 26, 1969

Topics

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Often, it's the little things, like the title of a song, that can make a huge difference in its success.

Jeremih

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Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

John le Carre

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father's clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.

Angela Duckworth

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You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.

Stephan Pastis

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In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.

Mary Cheney

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Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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Well, isn't every successful person in every family the bankbook?

Louie Anderson

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It's pretty easy in theatre. The comedy's either physical or verbal, and you're looking at the whole frame at once. But TV executives want close-ups. I keep telling them to look at Preston Sturges' movies. He'll do a whole scene without a cut in it, and it's a riot.

Don Scardino

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I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.

Dinaw Mengestu

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Sometimes you have to take the risk that somebody will consider what you're making is noise, but if you don't try it, then nothing will move forward. I'd rather people hate something than just go 'meh.'

Cheo Hodari Coker

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Our whole society is instantaneous.

Bryan Cranston

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