"There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for a minute-give you pause-are good."

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Glenn Ligon

#Giving Quotes #World Quotes #Kind Quotes

“This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.”
“We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.”
“It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar.”
“We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin...”

Source : Aimee Semple McPherson (2009). “This is That: Personal Experiences Sermons and Writings of Aimee Semple McPherson”, p.573, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Up to a point a personâ€™s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.”
“Remember, if you do the things you ought to do when you ought to do them, then someday you can do the things you want to do when you want to do themâ€¦Whatever you do or dream you can doâ€”begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”
“I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop... everything! But it all blends together nicely. It's like a magical music rainbow.”

Source : "Hear the Latest from Kreayshawn, a Tattooed, Potty-Mouthed Hip-Hop Artist With a Soft Spot for the Spice Girls" by Caitlin Brody, www.glamour.com. September 17, 2012.
“I haven't done it by myself at all. I've been surrounded by a really, really good crew of all ages. I think it's important to have a good age range in the crew so that some of us have experienced that period, or something close to that. But the script, of course, is really inspiring and you just have to trust that. Sometimes on film a glass can be as big as a car, so if the details are right, then they take up as much space on screen as the streets that we didn't have a chance to show as London really has changed since then.”

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