Lena Waithe Quotes
As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite and generous even when you don't want to be sometimes. I learned that and, also, just to never take no for an answer.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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Christianity is a battle not a dream.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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All great achievements require time.
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Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
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Such is my love, to thee I so belong, That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.
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Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite and generous even when you don't want to be sometimes. I learned that and, also, just to never take no for an answer.
