Quvenzhane Wallis Quotes
I can't wait to ride my electric scooter, walk my dog, watch TV, be bored … and I'm gonna put [my Oscar] in my hand and kiss it every night before I go to sleep.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
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We have to tokenize in order to normalize.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.
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I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.
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Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!
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5) Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
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I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.
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I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to at night that isn't invaded by your day.
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I can't wait to ride my electric scooter, walk my dog, watch TV, be bored … and I'm gonna put [my Oscar] in my hand and kiss it every night before I go to sleep.
