Kehinde Wiley Quotes
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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You can't escape from what you are.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.
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I've become a produce snob. I like to eat food that's in season.
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Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is
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It's what Ecstasy does to serotonin levels that concerns us most right now.
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If you're studying from a book and trying to listen in on a conversation at the same time, those are two separate projects, each started and maintained by distinct circuits in the brain. Pay more attention to one for a moment and you're automatically paying less attention to the other.
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I need to open a restaurant, a big soul food restaurant in Beijing!
