Lena Waithe Quotes
I feel like I wanna have a series of moments. It's scary when they say you're having a moment, because moments are momentary.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.
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Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
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I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much time when you're not working, and there's so much rejection and so little you have control of. Writing is something that you can do, and no one can tell you not to.
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When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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I'm not cynical.
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Everybody grows but me.
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Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids.
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I'm very serious about acting.
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The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.
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Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.
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After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.
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I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. 'It's that way with people, too,' he said, 'only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.'
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Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.
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In real life I've learned to love not wearing any makeup whatsoever, and I'm super low-maintenance when it comes to my hair.
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As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.
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I feel like I wanna have a series of moments. It's scary when they say you're having a moment, because moments are momentary.
