"There was no image of the other biological half of myself. And as an artists, as a - as an - as a portraitist, the look of who you are was radically important to me."

-- Kehinde Wiley

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“This is still a lot of blocking and tackling. I'm not seeing the kind of vision thing associated with a frothy market.”
“With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.”
“When I signed with Scooter Braun and I decided to go overseas to promote my song, the only concern was how should I communicate with the public and the audience with my language. Scooter and I talked a lot about that: should we translate or not? Finally we didn't, and I think that was a really good decision.”
“Learn to take pleasure in the search.”
“I don't like to sell my finest pieces.”
“There's no job that's more rewarding than being with kids. I adore it.”

Source : "Jenna Bush: 'I'm living my dream job'". TODAY Interview, www.today.com. April 22, 2008.
“I was extremely frustrated, almost at the point of giving up on coming up with a name for the project (because I'm awful at it), when I decided to play the 'put a pen somewhere on a map with your eyes closed' game with South Africa. About the 5th try was St. Lucia in South Africa, which coincidentally also happens to be an idyllic sub-tropical seaside resort town. The name seemed to fit with the mood of the music, and so after a while it just stuck.”
“Every president inherits difficult problems. George W. Bush inherited eight years of a failed foreign policy and did nothing about the growing threat of Islamic terrorism, except a one-time lob of a cruise missile into the desert at a camp that had long been abandoned. George Bush inherited that, and 9-11 was the result of that. Every president inherits problems. Harry Truman inherited a war. Stop blaming the person before you and go forward and take leadership and deal with the problem.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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