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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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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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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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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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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Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.
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Love is a decision. Not always an easy one.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.
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I love period dramas.
