Teyonah Parris Quotes
When I'm filming, I keep my hair in cornrows so that they can fit a wig on top of my hair.
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
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Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.
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In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.
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I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
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Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.
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The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more than to make a scary movie, and I just kind of wrapped my political treatise of the class distinctions in England in this movie.
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I went to see President Nixon at the White House. It wasn't difficult to get a meeting because I was heavyweight champion of the world. So I came to Washington and walked around the garden with Nixon, his wife and daughter. I said: I want you to give Ali his licence back. I want to beat him up for you.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.
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Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black women - that were specifically just about existing and weren't necessarily racialized or were centered around race.
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You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.
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People still take it really personally. They come up to me at breakfast places like, 'When are you growing your hair back?'
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When I'm filming, I keep my hair in cornrows so that they can fit a wig on top of my hair.
