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When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

Artist Believe Dramatic Everything
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When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

Addiction Argue Back Because
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The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.

Accepted Action Against Alternative
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When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

Always Amount Family Guarantee
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Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it's not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form.

About America Being Best
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My music is not Christian - Lecrae is. And you hear evidence of my faith in my music.

Christian Evidence Faith Hear
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I've done songs with legends like De La Soul with Pete Rock. I've done songs with B.O.B. I've done songs with Big Kit.

Big Done Kit La
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A lot of times, we believe what the media says about us or what our awards or accolades say about us instead of what God says about us.

About Accolades Awards Believe
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Pain can be a haunting reminder to appreciate every waking moment.

Appreciate Every Haunting Moment
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In order to cry out for my black brothers, I had to hate the police.

Black Brothers Cry Had
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The biggest accolades aren't the Grammys for me. It's creating opportunities for people.
Accolades Biggest Creating Grammys
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Christians have no idea how to deal with art.

Art Christians Deal How
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I would say before I dedicated my life to living for God, I was really your average thrill seeker.

Average Before Dedicated God
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Me and Kendrick Lamar have had conversations for years back and forth, so that's my dude.

Back Conversations Dude Forth
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A lot of times, when you don't have to deal with some of the circumstances that affect minority culture, you just don't think they exist. This is a conversation I have with lots of my white friends all the time.

Affect Circumstances Conversation Culture
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If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category.

Any Black Care Category
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Being faith-driven, being a hip-hop artist, being artistic in an urban context - all of those things make you unique, and you put yourself on the outside of what's considered the norm.

Artist Artistic Being Considered
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I consider what I do soul music. It's music that is concerned with the soul.

Concerned Consider Music Soul
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In Scripture, when something is repeated, especially a name, it shows an emotional connection, a deeper sense of meaning.

Connection Deeper Emotional Meaning
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It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

Bit Depends Difficult Grass
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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

Complete Final Gathered Modification
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.

Compulsory I Love Love Made
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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.

Art Blood Bones Creative
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

Certain Conceited Countries God
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

Always Anything Close Mountains
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

Affected Change Divorce Important
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Bird Dead Drop Frozen
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

Bites Curse Deep Literature
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Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
Demand Economist Got Parrot
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Am Bigger Deal Great
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Action Alone Doubt Ended
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Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.

About Available Camera Carried
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This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books; I'm showing slides and talking about the work.

About Been Books Cases
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Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.

Added Attack Been Center
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Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.

Alive Cosmos Doing Feedback
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My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.

Better Express Get Idea
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

After Become Books Collection
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Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions.

Again Almost Been Conditions
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I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.

About Bring Collecting Healing
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I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.

Attracted Becomes Come Exploration
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I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.
Adventure Attitude Chips Fall
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I deal with this spiritual issue every day - either shooting or processing or sorting or discussing or having conversations - I'm in constant contact with it.

Constant Contact Conversations Day
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I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Able Became Being End
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But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

About Art Art Work Ask
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A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.

Camera Chemicals Develop Film
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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

Able He Last Long
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I have a master's degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don't carry cameras with me wherever I go. I get an idea of a subject matter I want to deal with and I pull out my cameras.

Art Call Cameras Carry
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Spock is definitely one of my best friends. When I put on those ears, it's not like just another day. When I become Spock, that day becomes something special.

Another Another Day Become Becomes
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There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

There Were Three Us
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

Compete Daily Doing Every
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