Lena Waithe Quotes
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I've been making some more electronic music, which I really enjoy doing.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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I'd rather people talked about the 1,000 most successful French Internet companies instead of the 5 or 10 faces we already know - including mine.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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A Russia that gradually begins to gravitate toward the West will also be a Russia that ceases to disrupt the international system.
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I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.
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I like ground and pound; I don't know if it is like a technique or discipline. I like to be on the ground, but I don't necessarily go for submissions or anything.
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Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.
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You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Shah Jahan, the fifth emperor of the Mughal Empire, commissioned the building of the Taj Mahal as a tomb for his beloved wife.
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The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force. It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn
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...in this world, often, there is nothing to praise but no one to blame...
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There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.
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So he had locked her in the closet. Some of his people, ignorant and fearful, could not quite believe her illness was not contagious. Badger locked her away from them for her own safety. She had seen for herself how eager they were to get her out of their sight.
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Individual consciousness is just sickness.
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Why a musician loves playing jazz or classical music or what makes them happy, and why an artist likes to paint - it's so hard to actually put into words what that feeling is of joy that we get, but that is what I get: a feeling of joy when the camera is rolling, even if I'm doing something that is not joyous.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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I'm queen of mentorship.
