Amy Sherald Quotes

I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small.

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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.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Peace

• 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.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • Evil
  • Terrorism

• 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?

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Up
  • Family
  • Small

• I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Important
  • Know
  • Surgeon

• If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Worst
  • Possible
  • Too

• As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Opportunity
  • Audience
  • Stage

• 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.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Same

• 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.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Up
  • God
  • Attitude

• 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.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • People
  • Want
  • Fortune

• My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Job
  • Career
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Hip Hop

• The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Father
  • Religion
  • Son

• 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.

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Free
  • Earth
  • Feeling

• I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Religion
  • Politics
  • Literature

• Watching Madonna puffing on a cigar on David Letterman's show, I thought, 'Gosh, she's feeling so India! All she needs is long, black hair and a trip to the Caribbean to burn her skin up.'

  

  La India
  • Up
  • Long
  • She

• I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Small

• I know that 'The Accident' is not a completely accurate reflection of the reality of the book publishing world, which, like nearly any other business, consists mostly of people sitting in small offices staring at computer screens or reading or trying to stay awake in meetings.

  

  Chris Pavone
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• I was born on September 30, 1939, in Rosheim, a small medieval city of Alsace in France. My father, Pierre Lehn, then a baker, was very interested in music, played the piano and the organ, and became, later, having given up the bakery, the organist of the city. My mother Marie kept the house and the shop.

  

  Jean-Marie Lehn
  • Up
  • Music
  • Mother

• I believe in forgiveness.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Believe
  • Forgiveness

• I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small.

  

  Amy Sherald
  • Small