Amber Riley Quotes
Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
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Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.
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To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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One of the reasons we don't have our deficit under control is because Republicans are wusses and won't tell their base a simple fact that everyone knows. We can't eliminate the deficit without raising some revenue... They're wusses.
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I plainly told them, 'Be ye sincerely converted, and with your whole heart, to the Lord our God, for nothing is impossible to Him, that He may today send you food on your road, even until you are satisfied, because He has everywhere abundance.' And, with God's help, it was so done: Behold! A herd of swine appeared in the road before our eyes.
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I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.
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I wear the same black suit. I have five of them. I pair them with a red scarf. I was wearing a red scarf when I won the first architectural competition of my career.
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I once didn't work out for six weeks. It took me for ever to get the weight off.
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Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.
