Lena Waithe Quotes
I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinist, football player - has to be the best. Why not me?
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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Back in 2005, the Anthony Nolan Trust could have asked me just to speak out about the lack of ethnic minority donors on the bone marrow register, but that would have meant nothing if I wasn't prepared to join up myself.
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I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.
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David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny.
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The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.
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Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust.
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I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them.
