Samira Wiley Quotes
For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'
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I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.
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I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
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I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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Oh my God, I'm a walking advertisement for discounted shopping.
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Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.
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You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.
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My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.
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I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.
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I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.
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Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what they're looking at - by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online.
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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
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For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'
