Tyron Woodley Quotes
I don't need to be in a comfortable spot to achieve greatness. I fight for it no matter what.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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I'm not a Republican.
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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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The recession's high unemployment rates may have encouraged people to start sole proprietorships, but there are many obstacles in the way of growing a company to create jobs.
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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
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Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.
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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
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An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.
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It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.
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I guess because I'm a washed-up journalist, I always do a lot of research.
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I would like to sit down with Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, PJ Harvey, and Bjork. That would be a good dinner in my mind. Strong women. I think I would enjoy that.
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A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.
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Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.
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Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.
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You need to be silly to be funny.
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I've had a lot of seedy side jobs. I've done it all. I've worked retail at the mall, just tons of side jobs, which I think are amazing for actors. I think everyone should have one! It helps you get more experiences, and the more experiences you have, the more you can channel into a character.
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I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give them. I'm always on the lookout for teaching poems - poems that inspire me and my students to write poems in response.
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I don't need to be in a comfortable spot to achieve greatness. I fight for it no matter what.
