Samira Wiley Quotes
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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I got a young black woman agent, and she kinda just knew what I would be attracted to. She sent me this pilot for 'Insecure.' I never saw myself as a comedy director, but when I read those pages, I said, 'Wow - this is my life on the page.'
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Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.
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Conservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.
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I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.
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I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child
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I grew up in the church.
