Quvenzhane Wallis Quotes
[Answering the question 'If you had caused the end of the world, what would you do?'] I would try to fix it. I would go to bed on time and brush my teeth.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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Your real life is in the here and now. Once you figure out what kinds of experiences cause you to feel certain ways, you can change either the experiences, or when that's not possible, change your responses to them.
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Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives.
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I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic.
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Fabric is the foundation of a collection.
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The masculine grows by challenge, but the feminine grows by praise. A man must be unabashed and expressed in his appreciation for his woman. Praise her freely.
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[Answering the question 'If you had caused the end of the world, what would you do?'] I would try to fix it. I would go to bed on time and brush my teeth.
