"I'm tired of having to consult a group of old white guys about my black girl craft. They don't even know what they're listening for or to."

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Source : "Azealia Banks 'begging to be dropped' by Universal" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2014.

Azealia Banks

#Girl Quotes #Tired Quotes #White Quotes

“Our scars reveal who we are. The fact that we have experienced profound suffering in lifeâ€”the fact that we carry what may seem to be unsightly scarsâ€”does not disqualify us from following Jesus. It may be precisely what qualifies us.”

Source : Jonathan Martin (2013). “Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?”, p.89, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.”
“The mind is given to you, you are not given to the mind.”
“It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive [Stanley] Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been able to do. For me, to be able to try to make big films that reach a lot of people, and that hopefully have something to say, is a lofty goal, but that's my goal.”
“I think the experience of getting an audience a little bit tense and shocking them with a jump scare, and then moving on it can be cheap and easy. The harder thing is to get them unnerved and disturbed in a growing way. That starts off easy and increases all the way through the picture.”
“You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.”
“The gallery closed its doors in 1971. I could no longer psychologically handle the needs of 12 artists. I cared about all of them, and what was happening with their careers. I'm just not a person who can do that indefinitely. And tax-wise I was concerned because they gallery wasn't making money; it was losing money.”
“In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled.”

Source : "Data Storytelling: The Essential Data Science Skill Everyone Needs" by Brent Dykes, www.forbes.com. March 31, 2016.

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