Kasi Lemmons Quotes
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.
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I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.
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What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.
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When you're younger, you have ideas and visions of what you're going to be like when you're older and what love is going to be like and who you're gonna be married to and all of these different things.
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I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.
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It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die.
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There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
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I usually have two or three ideas floating around. When I have free time, the one I end up thinking most about is the one I end up pursuing.
Colson Whitehead -
In many points in history films and filmmakers have been banned for political reasons- that's how annoying they can be to oppressing systems, how dangerous.
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Honestly, I do spend most of my time between films trying to get the next one made.
