Faith Adiele Quotes
When I say my work is travel, that's what I'm doing. And part of being biracial and multicultural is I'm always playing with genre and genre expectations. So even if I say I'm doing straight memoir, you'll see that I'm doing weird stuff with the structure. I've got images, I've got lyrics, and I've got journalism. I really try to not get stuck in genre expectations.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.
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On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
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I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.
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Sometimes Peggy herself would sell tickets to her museum, and if tourists asked her if Mrs. Guggenheim was still alive, she'd assure them she wasn't.
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Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
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Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.
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I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or sixteen, I had a sense that photography could provide a bridge from the world of science to the world of art, or image. Photography was a means of crossing into a new place I didn’t know.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.
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I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.
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When I say my work is travel, that's what I'm doing. And part of being biracial and multicultural is I'm always playing with genre and genre expectations. So even if I say I'm doing straight memoir, you'll see that I'm doing weird stuff with the structure. I've got images, I've got lyrics, and I've got journalism. I really try to not get stuck in genre expectations.
