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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I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.
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My first love, in my head, believe it or not, was Ron Howard.
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Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.
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I think that therapy is great and can be incredibly helpful.
