Samira Wiley Quotes
You have people who are so passionate and touched by my work, which is so humbling. But other times, it's a little overwhelming. If I'm just trying to go to the bodega and get some coconut water, I have to put on a hat and some glasses - those kind of things.Samira Wiley
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
Taylor Sheridan -
I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
Waylon Jennings -
When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
Harrison Ford -
I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
Youssou N'Dour -
I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
Kate McKinnon -
Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
R. L. Stine
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Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
Natasha Richardson -
I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
Iris DeMent -
I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
Gale Gordon -
I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.
Taylor Swift -
A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
Olga Kurylenko -
It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
Pardis Sabeti
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
Vera Farmiga -
I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
Oliver Reed -
Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
Daniel Clowes -
In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
Jack Henry Abbott -
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill
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I want to do anything where people feel I can help make their franchise better and make a contribution.
Larry Brown -
I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
Hanneli Mustaparta -
Some old people, they remember that they used to play clarinet, and they remember the squeaks of the clarinet. But I don't play like that.
Anat Cohen -
In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily items equally in the exclusive representation of a normal item taken out of their usual context , is by far the most radical - in its effect comparable to a Japanese Zen koan - paradox to be witnessed, which modern art has produced, one of the most forceful impulses that generated from it.
Antoni Tapies -
We're broke. It's never a fun message to deliver.
Jaime Herrera Beutler -
You have people who are so passionate and touched by my work, which is so humbling. But other times, it's a little overwhelming. If I'm just trying to go to the bodega and get some coconut water, I have to put on a hat and some glasses - those kind of things.
Samira Wiley