Sarah Kay Quotes

You can be an artist, work hard for your work and also share while trying to create community with other artists.

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• I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Kind

• I love so many styles of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Love
  • I Love

• You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Live
  • Death
  • Look

• I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Mercy
  • Drive

• I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Death
  • Night

• Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Sometimes
  • Fake
  • Credit

• The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • English
  • Minds
  • Scottish

• I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Character
  • Really
  • Longer

• We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • God
  • Different
  • Country

• Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Change
  • Being

• There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • School
  • Kids
  • Black

• My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • World
  • Law
  • Garden

• The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Beautiful
  • Food
  • Best

• What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Music
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like to be able to do is focus on the linkages, say, between asset markets and the macro economy without having to model everything at the same time.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Focus

• There are very few things in the body that nitric oxide doesn't regulate.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Things
  • Body
  • Very

• I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Value
  • Democracy
  • End

• I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there's really not much point in you having been there - or me, for that matter.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Job
  • Tomorrow
  • Performance

• He's a special person. No one knows how fair and ethical a person he is unless you've been around him. He has the highest degree of integrity. I'm glad he's staying around the state. I just wish I could see him win one (state championship).

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Wish
  • Person
  • Integrity

• Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to glorify, to dignify man... Since any social system is forced to change to another by concrete economic forces, its art changes also to be recharged, reshaped, and revitalized by the new conditions... The making of a genuine artist or writer is not mysterious. It is not the work of Divine Providence. Social conditions, history, and the people's struggle are the factors behind it.

  

  Carlos Bulosan
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Artist

• I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.

  

  Frank James
  • Peace
  • Perfect

• I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart.

  

  Chris Hardwick
  • People
  • Bad
  • Violence

• You can be an artist, work hard for your work and also share while trying to create community with other artists.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Trying
  • Community
  • Artist