Naturi Naughton (Naturi Cora Maria Naughton) Quotes
I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.
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I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
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I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.
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People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I believe that, as actors, we have a phenomenal platform to spread positivity and influence people in the same way.
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I've always ignored the labels people put on things.
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
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I like people a lot, but I am not comfortable in literary New York situations. There is deep anxiety and tension around success here. I don't share problems I'm having about my work, and I think conversations around publishing are boring.
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If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
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Bring back Sally Jesse Rafael! That's all I'm asking.
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The urgency for me is to hurry up and become visible enough to either influence or shame other artists or corporations into understanding that there needs to be an equal starting block. You can't rush to make the changes. The rush that I have is to change the mindset of the people who can actually influence the situation in developed countries and in under - developed countries ... and not all under-developed countries need to develop. Maybe they just need to learn and be re - given the tools to understand how to use the land that they live on.
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Time is not important, but art is.
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I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.
