Quvenzhane Wallis Quotes

When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

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• I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.

  

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• Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

  

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• I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

  

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• Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

  

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• With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.

  

  Walter Pater
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• I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.

  

  Nas
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• My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.

  

  Larry Page
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• I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.

  

  Barbara Kopple
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• Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

  

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• Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

  

  Vikram Seth
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• I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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• I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.

  

  Uwe Boll
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• I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

  

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• I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.

  

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• I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.

  

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• I think it's really good to get the adrenaline pumping.

  

  Maika Monroe
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• I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.

  

  Daniel Breaker
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• I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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• There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you've made. I tell myself, in the long run, it's the love, the quality of relationships that you have with your family, your friends and giving back to the community that matters.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
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• When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Think
  • Sad
  • Animals