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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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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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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We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.
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Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it.
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The name is also connected with living in New York in this really weird time. People are constantly waiting for something bad to happen. I wrote these songs and formed this band to make sure I didn't get overcome by that sense of fear. That's what this band is about -- standing tall and not being afraid.
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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.'
