Lena Waithe Quotes
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In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.
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The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.
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Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.
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Reminded of what a diet really is, I began eating more slowly, being more conscious of when I was full. I started to enjoy my buckwheat bread with goat cheese and pureed butternut-squash soup as a response to real hunger.
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I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It's fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that.
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The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that's really distasteful to me.
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I'm definitely capable of just enjoying riding my bike these days.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'
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When Wolf Blitzer wears a not-so-great tie, how much e-mail do you think he gets? My point is, for women, unfortunately, appearance is part of the job.
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I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.
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I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.
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Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
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If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.
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It would be a matter of concern for government if intrusive data capture has been deployed against Indian citizens or government infrastructure.
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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it. And, did we even see this, how can we make the difference? How obtain the interest which society declares she does not want, and we cannot want?
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Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.
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While I don't think Trump wants to target any particular minority group, I understand their fear because he spent many months stoking it.
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I was sad and in a dark place, and I turned to a hobby to sort of take me out of that.
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Garnet woke up early. Before she was quite wide awake she lay with her eyes closed, half afraid to look for fear it might be raining. But even with them closed she knew it was going to be all right because the color behind her lids was clear and rosy and she knew the sunlight lay upon them. And she heard crickets in the meadow, and a fly buzzing against the screen, and somebody whistling outside. So it was all right and she opened her eyes. Oh what a day! She held up her arm in the sunlight; all the little hairs on it glittered like fine gold, and her closed fingers were ember-colored as if there were a light inside them.
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Always maintain your composure.
