Ayana Mathis Quotes

I think being consistent is really important. In the arts there's a misconception that you sit around waiting for the muse to come, and that it's all really mystical and mysterious. In reality, sometimes you have to fake it till you make it.

Ayana Mathis

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• The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
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• It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
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• Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

  

  Natalie Merchant
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• Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
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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.

  

  Laura Marano
  • World
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• Don't you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand?What started out to be a joke, the law don't understand.Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man?Maybe this here outlaw bit has done got out of hand.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Done
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• Now there's no more oak oppressionFor they passed a noble lawAnd the trees are all kept equalBy hatchet, axe and saw - The Trees (1978)

  

  Neil Peart Rush

• I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.

• If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Money
  • Management
  • Insurance

• It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

  

  Jimmy Rushing

• A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.

  

  Bill Walsh
  • Reality

• If someone gives you an opportunity, you better maximize it so that he wants to give you the next one.

  

  Adena Friedman
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• Something that is very special today might not be special tomorrow, but to hold it, to grasp it, to keep it, to make it special, to elevate it from the ordinary, that's when you open up the champagne. To make it sparkle.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • Up
  • Today
  • Champagne

• I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Support

• I keep this crazy notebook of song ideas.

  

  Max von Essen
  • Song
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• I always find something to keep me busy.

  

  Amy Sedaris

• I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • Up
  • Remember
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• There's no conversation happening between plus-size women and designers. The door is never open.

  

  Aidy Bryant
  • Women
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• I walk around naked all the time, but it doesn't mean I am completely comfortable and happy with my body.

  

  Jessica Hart
  • Time
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• I think life is so much about enjoying and not punishing yourself or restricting yourself too much. The more I let go of all my rules, the more free and happy I am, and nothing happens. So I just enjoy.

  

  Elsa Hosk
  • Life
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• Well when I woke up this morning,There was a note upon my door, Said don't make me no coffee Babe,'Cause I won't be back no more, And that's all she wrote, Dear John, I've sent your saddle home.

  

  Hank Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • She

• I see you brought along your violent little girlfriend. What a nice surprise!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Reality
  • Nice
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• The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Great
  • Waiting
  • Enough

• I think being consistent is really important. In the arts there's a misconception that you sit around waiting for the muse to come, and that it's all really mystical and mysterious. In reality, sometimes you have to fake it till you make it.

  

  Ayana Mathis
  • Waiting
  • Fake
  • Consistent