Danai Gurira Quotes
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Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
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I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.
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Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
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In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
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What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
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The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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I hope there are going to be plenty of more roles to come.
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The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.
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Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless.
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I don't even have my own computer.
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I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out.
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Many times in my life when things were not going as I had planned, I would try to take control and fix it. The harder I tried to fix things the harder the situation or the stress from the situation became. As I learned to trust that God had the best solution, my life became much more peaceful and I was able to get through problems much quicker.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
