Amandla Stenberg Quotes
I'm lucky because the most dangerous thing that could happen to me is that someone will say something mean on a computer screen miles away, and so I feel like if that's all that I'm facing, then why would I not use my platform to talk about things?
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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People work hard.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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I will raise a book to Brian Thomsen.
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I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.
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I think my mum has the foulest mouth of anyone I've ever met.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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When I moved to America, everybody was asking, 'Why the hell are you going to America? It's over; you should be going east.' But it turned out our timing was miraculous.
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As an actor, I feel there isn't much to explore on TV. So, if I get better work as a host, why wouldn't I do it?
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I'm lucky because the most dangerous thing that could happen to me is that someone will say something mean on a computer screen miles away, and so I feel like if that's all that I'm facing, then why would I not use my platform to talk about things?
