Lena Waithe Quotes
I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to move story along or as a way to make things more entertaining.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17- and 18-year-olds, but for some reason I got the part. It made me incredibly unpopular with my peers, but it was the English and drama teachers who stepped in to save me when others wanted me kicked out of the school.
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A friend of mine and I would go to this dirty little bar in Toronto that has karaoke every Tuesday night, and one night, we noticed that the only other person in there was Derek Jeter.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.
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There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.
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I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to move story along or as a way to make things more entertaining.
