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.
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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.'
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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.
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Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
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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.
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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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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.
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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)
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I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.
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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.
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It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.
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A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.
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If someone gives you an opportunity, you better maximize it so that he wants to give you the next one.
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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.
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I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.
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Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined.
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I keep this crazy notebook of song ideas.
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I always find something to keep me busy.
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I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.
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Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.
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Stevie Wonder makes my heart happy and is my spirit animal. That is all.
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Be adorable always to each other; respect is everlasting.
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Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
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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.
