Amber Denise Streeter (Sevyn Streeter) Quotes
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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I've been a video game guy since I was eight years old and got my first Nintendo. I've been addicted to video games ever since.
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I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other planet, and you can't believe it.
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My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfriend.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at the same time because you feel so happy and chilled-out.
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My first week at Stanford, I bought a computer, and it was the first computer I ever owned. I had to be taught how to turn it on and even how to use a mouse, even though, for a lot of people, a mouse is very intuitive.
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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
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Atheism is a religion of death. Though atheists make their own 'meaning' or 'purpose' while alive, ultimately atheism is all meaningless, purposeless, and utterly hopeless.
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I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's sort of a one-on-one with the canvas.
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Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.
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People inspire me to write, the good ones and the bad ones.
