Amy Sherald Quotes
Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.
Quotes to Explore
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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All my books are optimistic!
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
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I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.
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I’m just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other.
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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.
