Kehinde Wiley Quotes
If people looked at me like I was a little different, I would maybe sit next to them, and I would draw.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it is me, part performance. You're presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing.
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I go through phases of watching a ton of dance/performance, and I am bizarrely well-informed on the subject.
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Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
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I love teaching creative writing, and I think I'm good at it, but in a different life, I could have been teaching elementary school.
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If people looked at me like I was a little different, I would maybe sit next to them, and I would draw.
