Yvonne Orji Quotes
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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I'm not a materialistic person.
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Lunch is for wimps.
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All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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I was 16 when I started modelling. It wasn't planned, but nothing in my life has or ever will be planned.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series in Andy Griffith Show in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967.
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You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else.
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We didn't grow up with TV as a viable means of supporting yourself.
