Lizzo (Melissa Jefferson) Quotes
I knew a lot of girls who just wanted to be famous, and if that's your goal, that's awesome; that just wasn't enough for me.
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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I never really learned photography.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.
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The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
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I think probably honesty is the biggest quality I look for in a relationship. Being exactly who you are with the other person.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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I would like to be a polyglot.
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I guess I've always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.
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It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.
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When I first read the script, I realized that Katie would have to be played as a rather down-to-earth person.
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I knew a lot of girls who just wanted to be famous, and if that's your goal, that's awesome; that just wasn't enough for me.
