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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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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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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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup, because as an actor, I enjoy performing. It's about the creation of the character and the art to me, not about being comfortable and how long it all takes.
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
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But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.
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If you do something that's different and quirky and original, it takes time for people to figure it out.
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Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school.
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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.
