"I think, something that you might be able to locate in the work that I'm creating today: the ability to look at a black America as something that not only can be mined in a very sort of cynical, cold way, but also embraced in a very personal, love-driven way; but also sort of critiqued."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Thinking Quotes #Creating Quotes #America Quotes

“I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Taxi drivers are the ones who pay me the most attention. They seem to be into River Cottage and have a dream of moving to the country, so I have chats with them.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides through hell to save his country's life.”
“The thing I do at the beginning is a "voice journal," a free form doc that is the character speaking to me. I just work on it until I start to hear different from my own, or the other characters.”

Source : Comment by James Scott Bell on "Five Key Ways to Create a Character’s Distinct Voice", killzoneblog.com. May 15, 2014.
“My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.”
“I love the Dead. As far as Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia could walk on water. He could do anything any man could ever do. He's a prince.”
“Arriving there is what you are destined for”

Source : C. P. Cavafy (2015). “Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy”, p.19, Princeton University Press
“Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out”

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