Jandy Nelson Quotes
I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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Lovers should also have their days off.
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China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'
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Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
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It's been 35 years since I left school. Almost nine of them were in government; all the rest were in the private sector. And I've proven over time to be a great leader.
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When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning.
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The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.
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I've never gone to comedy clubs.
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I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist.
