Gabourey Sidibe Quotes
I really want people to know that I am a normal girl. I'm not a superhero now. I'm not some sort of celebrity that doesn't have feelings. I'm very, very normal.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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I always wanted them to look like Hollywood movies; I just didn't know how to do it.
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Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.
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The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique.
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I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.
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I really want people to know that I am a normal girl. I'm not a superhero now. I'm not some sort of celebrity that doesn't have feelings. I'm very, very normal.
