Lena Waithe Quotes
I love basketball! When I'm flying, and I have on sweats, a hat, and sneakers, people always assume that I'm a high school kid going to an away game. And I always say no, I'm a fan of the game.
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The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.
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With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
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You come in to work, put that game face on, leave your problems at home, stay strong.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
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I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'
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You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.
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I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.
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To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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I can pretty much justify anything as work if I'm reading the news or whatever.
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One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not.
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I love basketball! When I'm flying, and I have on sweats, a hat, and sneakers, people always assume that I'm a high school kid going to an away game. And I always say no, I'm a fan of the game.
