"People's view of exotic or Asian women are changing. It's much nicer to hear 'She's pretty' than 'She's pretty - for an Asian woman."

“Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born, and art is the expression of his overflowing soul. Because his soul is rich, he cares comparatively little about the superficial necessities of the material world; he sublimates the pressure of material affairs in an artistic experience.”

“I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.”

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“I hate girls who complain, 'Oh, guys are looking at me!' But I love it when guys check me out. It just feels great.”

“One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.”

Source : Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1938). “Listen! the wind”, Harcourt

“My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.”

“Privately I think that I'm not really somebody who has a network television show. Celebrities are other people - Johnny Carson and Sylvester Stallone. I'm just a kid trying to make a living is the way I feel.”

“I play a detective, very close to myself actually.”

“The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.”

Source : Benjamin Robert Haydon (1853). “Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, historical painter”, p.52