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" Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure. "
Hilton Als
Takes
Pure
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" I think I'm just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction. I think that painting abstraction often feels like painting colors to me, whereas portraits always feel like something connected. I like the exchange, the collaborative aspect of sitter and subject for sure. "
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" One of the things I liked about writing for a magazine was a kind of anonymity. When you do books, it's different than magazine pieces because you become a 'figure.' "
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" It's dollars before art in Hollywood. "
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" Boredom means you develop your own interior life. "
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" Women have an ability to be still in a way men don't. "
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" My self encompasses a lot of different things. "
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" Of course a magazine is shaped by its editor, and each editor is different. "
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" I didn't like '12 Years a Slave' because it was playing to the Spielbergian model of redemption. "
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" It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way. "
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" American musicals are, for the most part, about boys, or boyish pursuits and aspirations - the fantasy of freedom and resolve - and those dreams have little to do with the reality of most black women's lives. "
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" I'm attracted to people who work their little plot of land and cultivate it and cultivate it. "
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" My mother reveres artists, and my sister and I have inherited her love of art and the stories about its creation. "
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" I think, what's the point of writing a book that you would get in one sitting? "
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" Eminem was someone that I discovered I liked, largely because of his relationship to language and to his mother. "
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" Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and sixties, white composers and lyricists often still rely on familiar tropes when it comes to representing black women in musicals. "
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" I think that Tyler Perry's genius really has been to tap into the domestic market. He knows what his audience is based on, having toured America for so long, and then giving them the blueprint for his films prior to the films coming out, and then the films have the built-in audience because they've seen it in theaters already. "
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" I think that when I'm telling a story, I'm doing the best I can to tell the story as fully as I can, and if there are various fractures that happen in the story, then that's just the very thing that the story is as opposed to my looking for avenues of difference in one story. They just really do exist. For me, anyway. "
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" I love Andre Leon Talley as a person. "
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" People have a copyright on their own life. "
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Copyright
" I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false. "
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Nobody
Envy
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" My love of performers is not really different than my love for painters. Everyone's really high-strung and trying to do the best they can. "
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Best
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" I suppose that there are many novels that are set during the summer because it's a lonely time of year. Friends come and go, comfort comes and goes, which makes it a perfect time of year to indulge in melancholia. "
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" There is not enough time for anything, ever. "
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" Our wishes are our most reliable mirror, and the black-and-white movies I'm most drawn to are about artists who suffer because art is a noble thing; suffering is such a small price to pay for the imagination. "
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" In general, what we really want is a feeling when we read anything that the author has explored the territory as dutifully and as thoroughly as their spirit allows and as their heart allows. "
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" I think what we're attracted to on the page is something that is very difficult to do in life, which is to examine in what seems like a moment. To examine what we can't do in life very well, which is to be as present and accountable to what an experience is. That's why life is short and art is very long. "
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" I grew up in a largely black community during the '70s and '80s that scoffed at 'white' music. That music - folk, rock, some disco - was considered soulless, aberrant, just one more example of the Caucasian's desire to scream and yell and demand whatever their privilege and perpetual adolescence dictated they should demand. "
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" I think that writers are best served by sticking to their writing. Not having loads of theories about the best way to position the writing. I think that if the writing is good and the point of view is strong, the writing is going to take care of itself. "
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