Taika Waititi Quotes
A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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I'm like a Depression-era person as far as acting goes. It's sort of like, grab it while you can and make the most of what's in front of you. The first 'Avengers' opened up a host of things that I've been struggling to get made for a long period of time.
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HealthWell is just one of several foundations that assist patients in making their insurance co-payments for expensive drugs.
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Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.
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We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.
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A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.
