Teyana Taylor Quotes
Harlem is a stage. It's like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk and talk.
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
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Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
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It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.
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When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.
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If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're not being treated properly or that they're not being paid fairly, what you're going to have is you're going to have people doing the minimum amount of work necessary to not get fired, and not a peppercorn more.
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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
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I can cure AIDS, and I will.
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We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
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I believe that a politician needs to be with people.
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You don't go to church and tell the choir how to sing if you're a visitor.
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But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you have to get that work done in two days, that focuses the mind wonderfully.
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I will just think, why am I singing? Then I will know everything I need to know about what I'm feeling.
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You punched him by accident.
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Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.
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Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my parents were in error thus to exclude the imaginary from my outlook upon facts. They desired to make me truthful; the tendency was to make me positive and sceptical. Had they wrapped me in the soft folds of supernatural fancy, my mind might have been longer content to follow their traditions in an unquestioning spirit.
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I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.
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Harlem is a stage. It's like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk and talk.
