Amandla Stenberg Quotes
Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this character to actually getting the role. My mother reminds me that if I could manifest such an important role just because I wanted it so much, all of my dreams are possible.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Each time that you're playing a character, it's hard to pick a favorite.
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We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the Church and the world....It is easy to be unaware that it has happened; it is hard even to begin to realize how profoundly tradition in this sense has moulded us.
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I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.
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Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this character to actually getting the role. My mother reminds me that if I could manifest such an important role just because I wanted it so much, all of my dreams are possible.
