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.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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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.
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I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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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.
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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.'
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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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.
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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!
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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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.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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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.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
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If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.
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The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.
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That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.
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From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.
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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.
