Amandla Stenberg Quotes
I want to be fulfilled creatively as an actress and get to be in roles that are meaningful and impactful. I hope the same thing for myself as a director, one day. I want to make things that have an impact on how we look at the world.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Music is my release.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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This is the difference between depression and sorrow - sorrowful, you are in great trouble because something matters so much; depressed, you are miserable because nothing really matters.
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I think what we try to do is bring the news to our viewers in a very comprehensive responsible way.
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What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.
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As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.
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I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.
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I want to be fulfilled creatively as an actress and get to be in roles that are meaningful and impactful. I hope the same thing for myself as a director, one day. I want to make things that have an impact on how we look at the world.
