Tyrone Hayes Quotes
The secret to a happy, successful life of paranoia is to keep careful track of your persecutors.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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Life is like an analogy.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I've been on a tweeting mission.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That was her language.
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I think if you only work, then you won't have a life. It's tough to have a life when you're working a lot.
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Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
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I love queers as much as the next guy, I just don't think I should have to sit beside them on public transport.
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Seeing other people perform inspires me. I couldn't be a good performer if just relied on my own talents. Seeing what other brave choices other actors are making gives me the strength to be bold in auditions and to approach roles in different kind of ways.
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The secret to a happy, successful life of paranoia is to keep careful track of your persecutors.
