Danai Gurira Quotes

You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!

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• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Culture
  • Pop
  • Pop Culture

• I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Cool

• 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.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Magazines
  • Collecting
  • Shift

• I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Drug
  • Addiction
  • Video Games

• 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.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • Know

• After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Win
  • Celebrate
  • Ice

• Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Pretty
  • Hot
  • Too

• By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Opportunity
  • Young
  • New

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• 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.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Character
  • Brain
  • Body

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Wish
  • Restaurant

• 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.

  

  Fleur East
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Day

• You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Work
  • Clothes
  • Dress

• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Value
  • Successful

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking, living in cheap hostels, looking for stories with a camera and my ex-girlfriend.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • World
  • Real
  • Job

• The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • People
  • Live
  • House

• Donald Trump’s voice is resonating with average Americans who feel their voice has been lost by their party, I believe this will become a new Republican Party, one that we should embrace. We should be the party of working men and women, the party of America first.

  

  Lou Barletta
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

  

  Kara Walker
  • People
  • History
  • Black

• Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?

  

  Kenneth Rexroth
  • America

• You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!

  

  Danai Gurira
  • World
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