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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In the South, you don't say exactly what's going on or what's on your mind.
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I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say, 'Wow, I never thought of it like that before'.
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When I was going through school, I joined the Lyceum Youth Theatre, and that kind of cemented it. Through being in and around the building and watching shows, I realised that there was something I really loved about it, so I went into the stage management side.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.
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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.
