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.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Cool
  • Son
  • Walking

• Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • You
  • Me
  • Smile

• 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.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Fighting

• I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Important
  • Why
  • Better

• For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • Truth
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  Banks
  • Soul
  • Song
  • Crazy

• I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Life
  • Unique
  • My Life

• I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Me
  • Duty
  • Volunteer

• People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Good
  • Better
  • Competition

• 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.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Horse
  • Books
  • Racing

• Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Death
  • Facts
  • Explain

• 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.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • House

• But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Than

• Oh my God, I'm a walking advertisement for discounted shopping.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • God
  • Walking
  • Shopping

• 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.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Me
  • Problem
  • Always

• You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • World
  • You
  • Without

• I'm always trying to find something new for my customers. Every season, I try to top myself and push it a little further.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Season

• People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.

  

  Christo
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Men
  • Real
  • Trying

• What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Game
  • New York
  • Media

• I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Day

• For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'

  

  Samira Wiley
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