Teyonah Parris Quotes
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
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I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
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We are what we believe we are.
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Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.
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In my day everything wasn't so PC.
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The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.
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Leave them wanting more and you know they'll call you back.
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I love period dramas.
