Gabourey Sidibe Quotes

The thing about Precious, she's so far from a Hollywood character. She's so honest and real, I definitely felt like I knew her.

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• A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Real
  • Book
  • U.S.

• I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Strong

• Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Work
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  • Done

• I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Girl
  • Dresses
  • Features

• I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans.

  

  Adam Carolla
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  • Broken
  • Connection

• This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Work
  • She
  • Bad

• I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

  

  Vicky McClure
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  • Character
  • Past

• Any real Colts fan cannot abide the Denver Broncos and John Elway!

  

  Karen Handel
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  • Fan
  • Denver

• In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Single

• 2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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  • Party
  • Fight

• So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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  • Theatre
  • Transformation

• My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
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  • Family
  • Money

• Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.

  

  Fisher Stevens
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  • Trying

• If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

  

  Karl Jaspers
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  • History
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• Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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  • Want
  • Care

• Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • She
  • Same
  • Bird

• I guess I'm just a born performer or artist or sharer. I find the intimate details of my life compelling and interesting. I guess that I'm assuming that everyone else does, too.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Life
  • Interesting

• I’m vegan. It’s really changed, like, my eyes, my, you know, everything.

  

  Portia de Rossi
  • Eyes
  • Vegan

• Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated the designs most emblematic of the Modern Movement.

  

  Martin Filler
  • Style
  • Quality

• I love to feel clean. Whenever I was touring and doing shows, the minute I was done, I would immediately shower, take off all my makeup, and put on my PJs.

  

  Jessie James Decker
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• Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person.

  

  Dean Smith
  • Life
  • Society
  • Environment

• The thing about Precious, she's so far from a Hollywood character. She's so honest and real, I definitely felt like I knew her.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Real
  • She
  • Character