Zazie Beetz Quotes
I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that's what I deal with when I am alone.
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I don't really go to clubs anymore. I'm actually quite settled. Living in Highgate with my dog and my husband and my daughter! I'm not a hell-raiser. But don't burst the bubble. Behind closed doors, for sure, I'm a hell-raiser.
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
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I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.
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I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.
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I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.
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Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.
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Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
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It's a lot harder to get people to 'ooh' and 'aah' over beets and carrots than it is to get them to 'ooh' and 'aah' over artichokes or asparagus, and I enjoy being able to take these humble, 'lowbrow' foodstuffs up a few notches and serve them with great exuberance.
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I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."
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If I should fall asleep and death takes me away, Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay.
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You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe.
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Apollo 11 will probably go down in history as one of the major responses of two nations facing each other with threatening technologies - sometimes called mutually assured destruction. It was also the America's response to the apparent superiority of the Russians in putting objects into space before USA could.
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So we do nothing? --Claire We do the best nothing you've ever seen. --Michael
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Driving a race car is like dancing with a chain saw.
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How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.
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I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.
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When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.
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My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.
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I remember going to see Starlight Express almost every birthday I had as a treat because I just loved it, and the idea that you could rollerskate in a sort of scary old theatre... It was sort of a novel concept.
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There's a difference between being happy and just thinking you're happy.
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I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that's what I deal with when I am alone.
