Wentworth Miller Quotes
The backstory to anyone of mixed race is a lifetime spent being incorrectly perceived and choosing either to allow that misperception to continue or to correct it, so I am aware of identity and race as being much more fluid, I think, than someone who is "purely" one thing or the other. And acting does challenge me to address those particular issues.
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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My biggest regret is that I wasn't able to help give our fans a championship.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
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What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.
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I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.
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Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.
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All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality.
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be 'damned if you do, and damned if you don't.'
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Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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So I wanna see all of you making out during this song.
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I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.
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The backstory to anyone of mixed race is a lifetime spent being incorrectly perceived and choosing either to allow that misperception to continue or to correct it, so I am aware of identity and race as being much more fluid, I think, than someone who is "purely" one thing or the other. And acting does challenge me to address those particular issues.
