Naomie Harris Quotes
There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'
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I'm always investing and building things at the same time.
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I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
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I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
