Gabourey Sidibe Quotes
I don't think my brand of self-confidence and self-assuredness can come from an outside source. It's got to come from me.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
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We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
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I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all.
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I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.
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If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
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The first time I recorded without Allen Toussaint, I wanted to do doo-wop. Everything I've done since then has got some kind of doo-wop essence in it.
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One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.
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Tiangong 1, our home in space, was comfortable and pleasant.
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If women dabble in rap but they're not rappers, to get from dabbling to doing it is really difficult, confidence-wise.
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The world in all doth but two nations bear —The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
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My phone is all ping-ping, eBay alerts.
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I don't think my brand of self-confidence and self-assuredness can come from an outside source. It's got to come from me.
