Lupita Nyong'o Quotes
I'm interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.
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I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.
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I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.
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I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.
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I'm interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.
