LZ Granderson Quotes
Believe me, I recognize the cultural and anatomical challenges and respect the sacrifices women make in order to balance family and a career, or family with no career, or career with no family.
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It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.
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I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.
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Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.
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To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
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I try not to look back on my career.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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As much as I appreciate acting and enjoy it, and like it, it wasn't something where I grew up wanting to be a movie star.
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Believe me, I recognize the cultural and anatomical challenges and respect the sacrifices women make in order to balance family and a career, or family with no career, or career with no family.
