Lena Waithe Quotes
I think once 'Empire' hit, there was a lot of bad black TV that followed, because we work in the business of hit-seekers and copycats, so they're like, 'Oh this is a show about black people; this is about music, OK let's do a version of that.' And, of course, it doesn't work because it's not organic.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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I think people from Northern Ireland have some kind of unspoken general feeling of what it is to be around segregation. You have an awareness of it because you know how much grief it's caused.
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True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.
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Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
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Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That's the advice I'd give to people getting started online now.
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I think once 'Empire' hit, there was a lot of bad black TV that followed, because we work in the business of hit-seekers and copycats, so they're like, 'Oh this is a show about black people; this is about music, OK let's do a version of that.' And, of course, it doesn't work because it's not organic.
