Amy Sherald Quotes
The people I choose as models have a quality that seems to contain the past, the present, and the future all at once. It's hard to explain. I can look at 100 people in a room but only find it in one person.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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We never learnt the right lessons. We never went to the root of the problem. Once you start politicising religion, you play with fire and get burnt as well. Another lesson we did not learn is that Muslims are not homogenous.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.
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Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.
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A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.
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The people I choose as models have a quality that seems to contain the past, the present, and the future all at once. It's hard to explain. I can look at 100 people in a room but only find it in one person.
