Amy Sherald Quotes
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
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I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
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BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesn't mean imposing a bunch of rules.
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Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.
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The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.
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When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.
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Marijuana is … self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small.
