I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.
Kehinde Wiley
Recitation: by Male by Female
I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my eldest daughter, Amy, nicknamed me 'the Tasmanian Devil' when she was in her teens.
Jim Webb
DaughterTimeWalkMeDevilFast
Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
Joan Didion
StartFeelBackGoPageNeed
The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world.
Robert Green Ingersoll
PowerGreatPeopleGoldWorldCry
I'm the kind of person who wants the people around me to be comfortable, to laugh, and to have a fabulous time - I want them to be as happy as I am.
Angie Harmon
TimeI AmHappyPeopleMeLaugh
I suppose what I aspire to do is to make it easy for the audience to connect with a story.
John Tiffany
StoryEasyAudienceConnectAspire
My face moves, unlike some actors' do. I guess it's kind of a response to what's happening internally.
Toni Collette
FaceKindResponseHappeningSome
For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.
Robert B. Parker
FatherRespectUpAdmirationWho
I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it - the music that went along with it.
Mike Shinoda
MusicBrotherDoingRememberActing
I take music very seriously, but it's important to me that my music is - I don't know if 'intuitive' is the word, but there's a really important element of something kind of mysterious. It's not academic or esoteric.
Julia Holter
MusicMeKnowImportantSeriously
In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.
Jaromir Jagr
MistakeYouRulesEverythingPay
Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
PeopleThinkFeelDoingWrongMust
My simple point is that I judge a person's faith by how they live their life, not by the tenets of their religion. I've watched the holiest of people walk past somebody in need or treat their staff mean. To me, the beauty of faith is only seen when people live it consistently or struggle to do so.
Cory Booker
LifeBeautyLiveFaithWalkSimple
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