Tinashe Quotes
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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A true champion can adapt to anything.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot of people who spend a lot of time in dark rooms writing a script, and they'll go in and tell the story to some suit at a studio who says, 'Okay, this is great, let's go.' But that doesn't necessarily mean you know what to do once you're on set.
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For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
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I am such a political person.
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Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.
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I personally like to talk to people when I'm not doing a scene, still acting as if I'm in Gotham when I'm on set because I don't really like to break character, since I sometimes get distracted. I may get distracted when I'm talking to people and having fun; then I have to check myself.
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When you're being bullied, it can feel like no one cares, and I'm so excited to tell the teens at the schools I visit that I wouldn't be there if their school didn't care.
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My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.
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For events, I do use make-up, but normally I don't. I might use a bit of eyebrow pencil and a lipstick but nothing else.
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The relationships I've had with animals are often some of the most profound. That's why you cry when a dog dies in a movie. The connection is so deep and so profound, and it isn't cluttered by humanity.
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It is the world's first Ebola epidemic, and it's spiraling out of control. It's bad now, and it's going to get worse in the very near future. There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing. We really have to act now.
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I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.
