Jamila Woods Quotes
My art gets called political, as opposed to my intending it to be political. I think that's something that happens with black artists or marginalized voices trying to speak truth. Because there are things in the status quo to speak out against, speaking out against them will inherently be political.
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I waited for my first kiss.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there to give us the love and devotion our children will never fully give us.
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Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there’s a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don’t like it very much.
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Man is sick and nations have gone mad. You would not even tolerate for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace in the acts of some nations. You would lock up such a person.
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Life is getting better, but that won’t stop a war if politicians and business people decide it’s to their advantage to have one.
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Denying that the issue of marriage equality has changed is being on the wrong side of history and on the wrong side of love and commitment.
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My art gets called political, as opposed to my intending it to be political. I think that's something that happens with black artists or marginalized voices trying to speak truth. Because there are things in the status quo to speak out against, speaking out against them will inherently be political.
