Lena Waithe Quotes
I've never been a person that has had fear of, like, 'Oh, I don't want to be the poster child for all black lesbian women.' I don't know. I want to be someone in the public eye that they can be proud of.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
-
I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
-
I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
-
I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
-
We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
-
But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
-
One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
-
I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
-
Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
-
I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
-
We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
-
I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
-
I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
-
I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
-
I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film – now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.
-
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
-
I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.
-
If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
-
The eventual goal is to marry all of my work together to make a high-speed, high-resolution, low-impact tool that can look deep inside biological systems.
-
It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.
-
I like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.
-
You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.
-
A lot of young women ask me, 'Can you go into politics and maintain your ideals?' Well, I think you can. You might not, in any one interview, tell the whole truth, but to deliberately deceive the public who've elected you is totally unacceptable.
-
I've never been a person that has had fear of, like, 'Oh, I don't want to be the poster child for all black lesbian women.' I don't know. I want to be someone in the public eye that they can be proud of.
