Lena Waithe Quotes
It's weird because I see black gay characters on television all the time, but do I relate to them? Not always, because they're set pieces.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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I'm a proud family man.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.
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It seems in America you are stuck with the position you adopted, even when events change, in order to claim absolute consistency. That can't be good.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world of theatricality emerges around the act of love.
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Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.
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It's weird because I see black gay characters on television all the time, but do I relate to them? Not always, because they're set pieces.
