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.FKA twigs
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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.
Malcolm Gladwell -
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.
Samira Wiley -
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.
Ingrid Newkirk -
A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
Nate Silver -
I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
Fedor Emelianenko -
You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
Samuel Goldwyn
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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.
Edmund Hillary -
I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
Natasha Trethewey -
A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
Young Jeezy -
There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
Aaron Johnson -
I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
Tea Leoni -
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.
Aaron Rodgers
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
Mandy Patinkin -
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.
Zaha Hadid -
I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
Carla Gugino -
I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
Nadine Velazquez -
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
Mahalia Jackson
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No one really forgives unless he has been hurt.
Lewis B. Smedes -
I am no mother, and I won't be one.
Brigitte Bardot -
That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.
Charles Tupper -
I miss Swedish meatballs, but you can get them pretty much anywhere.
Joel Kinnaman -
Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive.
David Hewson -
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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