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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The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.
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Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot and try to put their voices into their character.
Dito Montiel -
To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life.
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Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?
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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.