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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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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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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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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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I can't think of anything that's hit me harder in my life than when I learned that three of our youngest grandchildren were diagnosed with Niemann-Pick C.
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Love is a person's idea about his/her needs in other person what you are attracted to.
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Barbie has always been an inspiration. Dressing her was part of ever girl's dream.
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I try to think of the social function of fiction as drawing the individual toward larger social and political questions. But I'm also very comfortable in saying that my novel - any novel - doesn't matter as much as larger questions of how we can see justice done.
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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.
