Lena Waithe Quotes
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I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.
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I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.
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There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.
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I'm a firm believer in only getting involved in things you're passionate about.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.
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I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.
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Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
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What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
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Die Verehrung mächtiger unsichtbarer Wesen, welche dem hülflosen Menschen durch die natürliche, auf dem Bewusstsein seines Unvermögens gegründete Furcht abgenöthigt wurde, …
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Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer. We can just step off the sidewalk. And sometimes we can get impressionable members of the opposite sex to perform sacramental rites with us. 'Every drop of water wasted is a drop less of a wild and scenic river, Jennifer. We'd better double up in the shower.'
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.
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Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.
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There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.
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As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.
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We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
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Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.
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My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
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The art of medicine has its roots in the heart. If your heart is false, then also the doctor in you is false. If it is fair, then also the doctor is fair.
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'Yeah, right. I know what's really going on: Heather's hired you to kill me, hasn't she?''Sammy!''Why else would you catapult me through the air and feed me to a man-eating cot?'
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If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don't mind living in that state, but I don't want to be there anymore. I don't want to live in a state of depression.
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I'm a big fan of Nora Ephron, who believed everything is copy, and I agree.
