Amy Sherald Quotes
Why can't I make up my own characters and paint the people I want to see in the world? I'm depicting the many people who existed in history but whose presence was never documented.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Strictly speaking, no person who believes that wars between classes and nations are inevitable is fit to be in charge of the destiny of children. To believe in the unity of the human race and get children to believe it in early youth would mean the creation of that unity and the end of war.
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Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom. Grittier soldiers are more likely to complete their training, and grittier salespeople are more likely to keep their jobs. The more challenging the domain, the more grit seems to matter.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.
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The things we always disengage with are one-sided stories or one-sided characters. They're very boring. When you feel like you're being hit over the head, you disengage.
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Why can't I make up my own characters and paint the people I want to see in the world? I'm depicting the many people who existed in history but whose presence was never documented.
