Susan Kelechi Watson Quotes
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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Saving a life overrides territories.
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Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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Both me and Ishmeet were very naughty. We used to have my grandfather's swords in the house. We used to take all these swords and take all the showpieces Mom had and slice them one by one. He actually locked my nana in the kitchen once for two hours.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.
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If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.
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You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.
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I don't know that I constantly think about being a black woman.
