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 our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
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Why young men from the country become firefighters is hard to explain to people who are not from the country. For most of us, it's not about the rush, which fades with time, or the paycheck. We could earn more working for the railroad or a car dealership. I figure it's about the land.
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I like having black hair. When I was really young, I wanted to be Asian - Asian hair is beautiful. I also wanted to look like the girl in George Michael's 'Father Figure' video.
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The Starbucks brand has shifted over time from being a specialty brand to being more of a mass brand. There is a gap at the top of the market.
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The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.
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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.
