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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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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It's very easy to get excited about a job, but it's a big commitment because you do it and then you have to live with it when it's finished. It's forever in your section in the video store. It's you. It's almost like deciding who you have a child with.
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If this is death, Guild Hunter,he thought to his mortal as angelfire scored through his bones and touched his heart, then I will see you on the other side.
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Guys that are playing in the preseason are one play away from being a starter.
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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.
