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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What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.
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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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It takes a bad woman to be a good godmother.
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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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It's impossible to explain to people who you are in a five-minute interview on TV.
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Get your shirt off... it's pervert time!
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What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
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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.
