"I pay my models to work with me, so there becomes this weird sort of economic bartering thing, which made me feel really sort of uncomfortable, almost as though you were buying into a situation - which, again, is another way of looking at those paintings. The body language in those paintings is a lot more stiff."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Pay Quotes #Way Quotes #Buying Quotes

“Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true.”

Source : Richard P. Feynman (2009). “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist”, p.19, Hachette UK
“I'm human so I'd be lying if I said that it's not times where you sit back like damn all these ***** is poppin what's up?”
“Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.”
“It's very important for us because we are viewers, first and foremost. We view more than we make. For us, it's important that the viewing experience is fun and thrilling and exciting and fresh and different. Those are our goals when we are writing something. When you watch it in the theatre, which I hope you will, how will you have the best experience possible? That's really important to us, and is the most thrilling.”
“Donâ€™t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect!”
“I am conversational - I just like to engage and talk about things.”
“The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free and easy chat with others.”
“Essentially the Succubus is a mythical figure - who used to come in and cause trouble with innocent men.”

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