Gabourey Sidibe Quotes
I am the only consistent person in my life and so I better like myself, and I better love myself. And I really better know that I'm as beautiful as anyone else.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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Too clever is dumb.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.
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Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.
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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.
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Love. The only indestructible thing. The only wealth and the only reality. The only survival. At the end of it all there was nothing else.
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I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author has a specific critique about contemporary society in mind, fiction tends not to be the best means to deliver that critique.
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I am the only consistent person in my life and so I better like myself, and I better love myself. And I really better know that I'm as beautiful as anyone else.
