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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In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda.
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Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.
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I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.
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The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.
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It's risky to show poor Americans. People see it as a downer. But I really wanted to make a tightly wound piece of storytelling that also happened to explode the myth of American affluence.
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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.
