Lena Waithe Quotes
It's interesting how things you hear as a kid take on a whole new meaning when you are an adult.
Quotes to Explore
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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Midi is my hobby.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
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Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.
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Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.
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I left Australia when I was 18 and I've been a foreigner for 36 years. I think that's very important to the way I work because as a foreigner you see things differently. But I started making Chinese-language films so I regard myself as a Chinese filmmaker. I just happen to be white. Or pink, actually.
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If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.
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The blogosphere is real, and it can be really harsh on fakes... so, if you're a phoney, you're going to get your bell rung.
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I try to be cool with everybody, but sometimes, everybody just has different personalities, motives, and different characters.
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It's interesting how things you hear as a kid take on a whole new meaning when you are an adult.
