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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I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.
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This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.
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Perhaps more than anything else, failure to recognize the precariousness and fickleness of confidence - especially in cases in which large short-term debts need to be rolled over continuously - is the key factor that gives rise to the this-time-is-different syndrome. Highly indebted governments, banks, or corporations can seem to be merrily rolling along for an extended period, when bang! - confidence collapses, lenders disappear, and a crisis hits.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
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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.
