Quvenzhane Wallis Quotes
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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Our approach to banking is very different from the traditional banks or even some of the new banks. We do not necessarily go out and write single-cheque, large-ticket loans.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings, from leaving Johannesburg, from belonging to any organization.
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What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'
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Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.
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I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.