Lena Waithe Quotes
I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect and make everybody happy.

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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
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I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.
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With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
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It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.
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As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
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Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
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That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.
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War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high the settings inevitably provide. But this one-dimensional explanation leaves out the core of the story, which is that reporters go to these places because they feel the tug of responsibility.
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I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect and make everybody happy.