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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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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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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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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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 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'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.
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Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.
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I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.
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Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul.
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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.
