Samira Wiley Quotes
My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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The people who hate immigrants are people who have never met them!
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Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.
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When I recorded 'Cooler Than Me', I had been singing for like, three months at the most. I was just a producer experimenting with my voice on tracks, and now I'm, like, a really good singer in a legit way.
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You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.
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I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They do not respond, at least in the short run, to either gentle kindness or any form of spiritual persuasion with which I am familiar.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
