Lena Waithe Quotes
I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first.
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People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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Everyone has areas they're not comfortable with, and mine are my bum, thighs, and legs.
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If ISIL were to substantially increase the priority it places on attacking the West rather than fighting to maintain and expand territorial control, then the group's access to radicalized Westerners who have fought in Syria and Iraq would provide a pool of operatives who potentially have access to the United States and other Western countries.
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I was talking to a woman last night. I said, 'I’m not like other people.' She started to giggle. Then I raised my voice and said evenly, 'That’s one blessing God gave writers - they’re not like other people!'
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I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.
