"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this."

-- Chinua Achebe

#Ideas Quotes #Diversity Quotes #Problem Quotes

“What I think confuses things is when people approach painting as an inherently expressive or personal medium. We still tend to have this expectation of purity with painting, this idea not only that the artist must be reflected in his or her canvases, but more importantly, that this is where one finds meaning.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Weâ€™re damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet.”
“Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.”
“The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.”
“When I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it. I still feel it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.”
“I loved my time on All My Children. That show was a family to me. I am so sad that daytime is slowly fading away. I owe so much to daytime. I learned so much about my craft and I made so many wonderful friends there and I am so sad that it is all going away.”

Source : Interview with Shane Saunders, www.csifiles.com. April 2011.
“They were beginning to burn churches. They were beginning to move beyond crosses... They burned churches because they understood that the Christian faith was what inspired the movement and kept it going.”

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