Amy Sherald Quotes

My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights movement was not about you being an artist.'

Amy Sherald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 30, 1973

Topics

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I don't think I can ever write about young kids anymore. I completely shot my wad there.

Jenny Zhang

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Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

Mem Fox

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But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

Anita Roddick

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I was a young actor who was bald, but at that time, there was a thing on television that - there was a prototype or a stereotype of a principal who was bald and mean with glasses, or there was... the angry boss who was bald.

Jeffrey Tambor

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I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.

Angel Haze

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Recovery is really important.

Ana Ivanovic

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

St. Jerome

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A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

Tony Gilroy

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When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

Robin Trower

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I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

Lisa Marie Presley

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If you do good work, you start to make a name for yourself and things can come around. Weird little happenstances happen.

David Walton

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On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.

Chris Bohjalian

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