Lena Waithe Quotes

I've been obsessed with television since I was 7 years old, and I've always been writing on some level.

Lena Waithe

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• Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Mind
  • Against
  • Block

• I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Misunderstood
  • Pattern

• I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Home
  • Emotional
  • Dreams

• I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • American
  • Environment
  • Environmental

• I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Book
  • Know
  • Famous

• A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • True
  • Girl
  • Mean

• The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • End
  • Fight
  • Development

• I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Thought
  • Scared
  • Floating

• At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Important
  • Day
  • End

• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • World
  • Country
  • Training

• Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • See
  • Relationships

• There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Information
  • Profound
  • Meaning

• I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Blues

• My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.

  

  Halsey
  • Mom
  • Issue
  • Ever

• Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Experience

• I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Want
  • Liked
  • Respected

• I'm not cynical.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Cynical

• I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • Learn
  • Movies

• In a way it kind of humanizes the sport to see that people can be at the very top of the sport and have hard times.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Way
  • Sport
  • Humanizes

• I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed to secure happiness of the French people, corresponds with the ardent wishes of my heart, while it gratifies the pride of every citizen of the United States, by its resemblance to their own.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Heart
  • Wish

• It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• I'm on this road for the rest of my life.

  

  Dennis Banks
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Road

• My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

  

  Luke Ford
  • Time
  • Space
  • Habit

• I've been obsessed with television since I was 7 years old, and I've always been writing on some level.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Writing