Amandla Stenberg Quotes
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
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My son smelled like a cinnamon bun, and that smell entered into my biological being, and it became an imperative that I keep him alive at all costs, so then there's this monster - this tiger or lion - that comes forward in you to protect them. And it doesn't stop. It doesn't matter if they become men or women.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.
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When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
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Water efficiency, recycling, and other local supplies will help California flourish in a drier future.
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I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!
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I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It's there to be a museum showcase of all that's great about American music.
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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
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It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.
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We know that when Main Street does well, so do American families.
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I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.
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There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.
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Nobody does good to men with impunity.
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My sexuality's very fluid, and my gender is very fluid.
