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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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 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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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.
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It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women.
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There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.
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My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.
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I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked name, so it will be something that we always have to deal with. I never needed to change it. It was always fine with me. It is a strange name; that's for sure.
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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.
