Amandla Stenberg Quotes
One of the most challenging things for me to do was to walk away from 'Black Panther.'
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save lives and work toward peace is not compelling enough to drive decision-makers, we must remind them that we care and will hold them accountable.
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I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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I never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.'
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It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
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The untruth of the accusation, which they all knew well, only served to reinforce it ... By the logic of the high-rise those most innocent of any offence became the most guilty.
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I've always said if you're comparing movies to music, then horror would be the black metal of the categories.
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Just because something is on trend doesn't mean you have to embrace it. You can look at it and admire it, but that doesn't mean you have to wear black nail polish or red lipstick.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I have often spoken about the importance of intentionality in philanthropy: that it has to stir the soul. This is true whether you are feeding the homeless, mentoring a child or working on climate change.
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One of the most challenging things for me to do was to walk away from 'Black Panther.'
