Christine and the Queens (Héloïse Adelaïde Letissier) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
-
We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.
-
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
-
I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.
-
The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
-
I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
-
You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
-
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
-
There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
-
I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.
-
Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.
-
A man's kiss is his signature.
-
I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
-
I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.
-
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
-
It's amazing how many companies aren't really in tune to the needs of different travelers. There's just so many embarrassing situations that you go through when you travel. You have to have a sense of humor about it and take it in stride. My whole approach is to embrace spontaneity.
-
I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
-
My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.
-
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
-
Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
-
I once bought a $150,000 car just because my friends told me to. Not because I wanted it. Because they told me to.
-
I want to set people up for success, like a good diet plan. If I pick just one, it may not be the right one for you. That's why there are 500 shifts, so you can literally flip it open and have an easy starting point.
-
The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.
-
Gendered performance is just constant theater.
