Lena Waithe Quotes
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If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.
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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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I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
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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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In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.
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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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That's the thing about pinch-hitting - you usually have a chance to make a difference in the game.
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Those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other.
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Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey.
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In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
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Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.
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Always maintain your composure.
