Kehinde Wiley Quotes
At the core, every artist, no matter what his subject matter happens to be, has to be someone doing the looking. I began to really interrogate the act of looking.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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I specifically had my son wear a Browns jersey on the streets of Pittsburgh while we were there.
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I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.
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If I feel like I need a little color, I'll get a natural spray tan. Not only does this give me a little extra coverage, but it also allows me to achieve the bronzed look I want without the sun damage.
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An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.
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I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records.
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This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.
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My preference is not to fight a Mexican.
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.
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I've always loved movies dealing with the terror of a woman who doesn't really know her husband and finds out that he's a monster. It's one of my favorite plots.
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I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his country.
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Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.
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Terrorism is not new to black people.
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I've tried, in 'Bloodmoney,' to tell a story that gets at the crazy relationship between the ISI and the CIA, these absolutely fascinating, often mutually destructive two scorpions in a bottle kind of relationship that they have.
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At the core, every artist, no matter what his subject matter happens to be, has to be someone doing the looking. I began to really interrogate the act of looking.
