Teyonah Parris Quotes
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I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
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I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
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Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.
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Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.
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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
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What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.
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You can enjoy yourself, but you need to look after yourself as well.
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So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
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Be yourself. And every person is unique.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.
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You know, when I'm with my friends, I'm still 17.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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Gord Downie is extraordinary. It's safe to say there's nobody like that guy that I've ever come across.
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It's important, as a young person of color, to see yourself reflected in the media.
