"I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live."

-- Theaster Gates

#Opportunity Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Willingness Quotes

“In Los Angeles, sometimes it's hard to find a magazine stand, let alone one that has the magazine that you want. So I find that the longer I live in L.A., the more digitally I consume.”
“It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.”
“I basically modeled my way through college, doing local runway shows in L.A. that don't pay a lot and a couple of shows in N.Y. and S.F., and I probably made the same as the average 19-year-old waiter; I just worked less and was around beautiful girls, so it was nice.”
“While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction”
“Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.”

Source : Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.38, Penguin
“I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.”
“I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes.”
“Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.”

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