Keith Stanfield Quotes
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won't lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age.
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As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.
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I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.
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I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.
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However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.
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If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.
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If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?
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I didn't feel a specific pressure to prove myself because I had an actor in the family. I didn't feel that pressure to fill some big shoes or anything.
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I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news. Every known detail of the origin of mankind is extremely important to such a specialist as Dr. Mondrick, but it doesn't interest the man in the street - not unless it's dramatized.
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I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.
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I love 'Watch the Throne,' because Kanye was acting so ratchet.
