"I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern slavery but with next to no resources, other than some paper and a pen knife and some people she'd like to kill"

-- Kara Walker

#Knives Quotes #People Quotes #Southern Quotes

“The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.”
“Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.”

Source : Dana Reinhardt (2009). “How to Build a House”, p.173, Wendy Lamb Books
“Luxury is not a static concept, but it shapes and changes with society. Now somebody who might not have the time to come to one of our boutiques can shop online.”
“My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.”
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
“Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.”
“I'm always playing extremes, either the vulnerable girl or the vixen.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly.”

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