John Sexton Quotes
I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.
Quotes to Explore
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
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We've seen the power of the PC, and we've seen that it's unstoppable.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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I know one business, and that's how to make software.
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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The walls of our upstairs hallway testify that we once had photogenic children. There are rows of framed pictures that show them playing baseball, basketball, holding a toad, and smiling in the sunlight at their eager parents. Everything is orderly and bright.
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God bless Dad, he came to every one of my shows. I was bad, and I had horrible stage fright. My dad was so relieved - he'd say, 'You were terrible; this kid is not going to be an actor.' Finally, I did a play and he said, 'Son - you were really good.'
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There is a deep camaraderie of insecurity between us actors. You rehash choices you've made among those who are close to you and inevitably bang your head against the wall when you finally figure out the scene... a day after you shot it!
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I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.
