Danai Gurira Quotes
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I'm very kinesthetic, and when you're that way, you just feel it in your body. I know that other actors think with the logical part of their brain, but I wear my character inside my body, even when I'm away from the set.
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When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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Respecting the cosmogony of the Egyptian priests, we gather much information from writers of the Grecian sects, who borrowed almost all their tenets from Egypt, and amongst others that of the former successive destruction and renovation of the world.
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We are in this time of corporations being so greedy and global. Some people want to call it the apocalypse. When I was born it was half the people on the planet. It has doubled in my life time. This is not sustainable for the earth; of course we are going somewhere. So we have to live preciously, we have to live each day with care!
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My career has never really been a vertical kind of thing. I mean, it's always been a bit difficult for me.
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You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!
