Amandla Stenberg Quotes

My sexuality's very fluid, and my gender is very fluid.

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• I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Good
  • Like
  • Dark

• I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

  

  Karen O
  • Really
  • Bass
  • Ace

• 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.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • American
  • Culture
  • New

• 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.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Memories

• I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Nature
  • Deep
  • Human Nature

• 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.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Men
  • Women
  • Stop

• When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Time
  • Home
  • Education

• Water efficiency, recycling, and other local supplies will help California flourish in a drier future.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Help
  • Future
  • Water

• 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!

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Pain

• Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Yourself
  • Communication

• Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Heart
  • Shame
  • Watch

• Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • World
  • Real
  • Movie

• I met Drew Barrymore, and she was so cool. She told me, 'I know I just had my baby three weeks ago, and that's why I'm emotional, but I cried when you performed.' And then she pulled out a tissue and said, 'Look, I was sobbing.'

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Cool
  • Emotional
  • Baby

• Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Nice
  • Rock
  • Waiting

• Peace is only better than war if peace is not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

  

  Walker Percy
  • War
  • Peace

• If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life

• Thinking in time is not relativism but a form of relationalism... the truest description of something consists of specifying its relationships to other parts of the system it is part of.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Good
  • Money

• Before I even started to school, I sometimes would hide behind the radio, which would be sitting on a table, and pretend that I was on the air and try to fool people who came by to listen.

  

  Carl Kasell
  • People
  • School
  • Air

• Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

  

  David Guterson

• Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because of various problems with the authorities I wasn't able to pull that one off. A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me. So I was thrown out, as it were. Other than that, there seemed no possible idle occupations, so writing . . . although writing isn't exactly idleness. There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor.

  

  Will Self
  • World
  • Writing
  • Problem

• My sexuality's very fluid, and my gender is very fluid.

  

  Amandla Stenberg