Kehinde Wiley Quotes
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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I have always liked a challenge.
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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Training, that's my specialty.
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The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.
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Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define.
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You hit a certain age, and you haven't died yet, and you become an elder statesman. I think I get a lot of applause because I'm not keeling over.
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Most writers can write three times as many books as I have and still live a life.
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I think it would be really interesting to paint Obama.
