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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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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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 get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.
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There is a world elsewhere.
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs.
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You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!
