Gabourey Sidibe Quotes
Just relax. When I was younger, I made myself the victim of catastrophic thinking. Anything that went wrong was the end of the world. But as I've gotten older, I've learned to stop myself and say, 'Hey babe, calm down. Tomorrow there will be sun.'
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.
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Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.
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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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Just relax. When I was younger, I made myself the victim of catastrophic thinking. Anything that went wrong was the end of the world. But as I've gotten older, I've learned to stop myself and say, 'Hey babe, calm down. Tomorrow there will be sun.'
