Nico Santos (Nico Wellenbrink) Quotes
Shows like 'Superstore' and certainly 'Pose' are leading the way and showing queer people of color in a much more complex, nuanced light that we've never seen.
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People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.
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People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
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Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
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I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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I feel like, maybe in the '90s, 'Rookie' would have been shamed for trying to reach a lot of people or trying to be 'mainstream', but I'm so pleased that our readers are happy to see me promoting the 'Rookie' yearbook on TV or whatever.
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I say 'here's the thing' a lot, both to alert people that I'm about to say something important and to give myself a moment to figure out what that important thing might be, because my head is so often completely empty.
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Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.
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My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
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Hungry people are always looking for more. More things to do. More to learn. More responsibility to take on.
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I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.
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When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
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I don't play favorites with people. My basic philosophy is that the only way to make the world a better place is by bringing something beautiful to every single person you run into at every moment of the day, so how can you play favorites with somebody?
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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
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I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'.
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I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.
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Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.
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Shows like 'Superstore' and certainly 'Pose' are leading the way and showing queer people of color in a much more complex, nuanced light that we've never seen.
