Samira Wiley Quotes
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.
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Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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When eating out while on tour, a great place to get vegetarian food is Thai restaurants, as they have lots of options. I absolutely adore salad and vegetables - I will eat salad until it's coming out of my ears. Although I think it's great in any form, my particular favourite has to be beetroot salad.
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When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.
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It took me a good decade of hiding in my house and not going outside to even, like, get my arms around this idea of celebrity, where suddenly people are looking for you to pick your nose or get a shot of you kissing some woman. It's a very discombobulating thing.
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I think that therapy is great and can be incredibly helpful.
