Serinda Swan Quotes
I didn't want to find out the reality that if I wanted my dream, I had to lose weight. That's a crushing dream for anybody . . . to change yourself to get your dream. Nobody should have to do that.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background.
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I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.
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The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
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When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.
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When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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I have been doing action roles for a while and really wanted to explore the other side of my personality on screen.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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We've been fighting our whole lives to say we're just human beings like everyone else. When we start separating ourselves in our work, that doesn't help the cause. I've heard it for years: 'How do you feel being a black filmmaker?' I'm not a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker. I'm a black man, I have black children. But I'm just a filmmaker.
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Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
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The computers are in control. We just live in their world.
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I didn't want to find out the reality that if I wanted my dream, I had to lose weight. That's a crushing dream for anybody . . . to change yourself to get your dream. Nobody should have to do that.
