Kehinde Wiley Quotes

Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance.

Kehinde Wiley

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FinanceIdeasThriveFlourishAble

Just because something is trendy doesn't mean it will suit you.

John Rocha

YouJust BecauseWillMeanSuit

My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another into smithereens on page after page. They are dull and ugly and show no interesting stories or models of conflict resolution or character building.

Russell Smith

SonCharacterUglyConflictBuilding

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Russell Brand

YourselfHappyPeopleBe HappyCare

I'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I'm not a terribly sociable creature.

Mary-Louise Parker

JobPartyHollywoodComfortable

What has happened has happened. What is done cannot be undone. There is no point in looking back and ruminating over the past. I am a forward-looking man. I want to look ahead; I want to put my past behind me. I want to make my country proud.

Mohammad Azharuddin

PastManI AmMeLooking BackProud

When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.

Don Nelson

CreativeWinYouBadGamesGot

I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home, I want to touch reality.

Johnny Galecki

WorkHomeDayRealityGoWant

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

Anne Lamott

JoyPrideAttentionBackCryNever

I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole, I guess I'm satisfied.

William T. Vollmann

GoodBookLongLivingSatisfied

Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.

Phoebe Cates

CameraYouModelingActingBeing

Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.

Paul Stanley

SomeoneDoingCredibilityIdeaElse

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.

Seth Grahame-Smith

ScienceYourselfDoingYouKnow

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