Amandla Stenberg Quotes
I'd say my relation to being a woman is, I mean being a woman is whatever you want because the concept of gender is not really real, you know? And so for me it's about being comfortable in myself. It's about allowing myself to express who I am in any way that I want to, whether that be through my clothing, the way I present myself to the world, whether that be through like my gender identity and my pronouns. It's just really about allowing yourself to really be expressive and creative.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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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 was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Pyrrhus said, 'If I should overcome the Romans in another fight, I were undone.'
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The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.
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I'd say my relation to being a woman is, I mean being a woman is whatever you want because the concept of gender is not really real, you know? And so for me it's about being comfortable in myself. It's about allowing myself to express who I am in any way that I want to, whether that be through my clothing, the way I present myself to the world, whether that be through like my gender identity and my pronouns. It's just really about allowing yourself to really be expressive and creative.
