FKA twigs Quotes
I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there's a lot of kids who get hurt in college and then don't make it to the NFL and don't have insurance, and their entire lives are changed when they put their bodies on the line for their school.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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Pitchers are smart. They know they are much better off if they mix things up and keep you off-balance.
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Pigheaded covers a multitude of virtues - as well as sins.
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I think, from a woman's perspective, that my interest as an investor and the way that I relate to entrepreneurs is a little bit different.
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I grew up in a total Pink Floyd house.
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Most of all I was numb, but there were moments when the pain cut through like a shard of broken glass. I began to understand how despair led people to just cash it in; how suicide wasn't just an option but a rational option.
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
