"I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay."

-- Toyin Odutola

#Wall Quotes #Portraits Quotes #Okay Quotes

“Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'”
“If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.”
“Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.”
“A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.”
“When I was in high school I was a really huge 'SNL' fan. I remember the cast around the time I started watching it - Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon, Cheri O'Teri, Tracy Morgan. I did research to find out how people got on the show. Their bios always said they came from an improv team, so I started taking classes.”
“Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.”
“The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.”
“Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.”

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