Lupita Nyong'o Quotes
My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.
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I recalled the ants I had watched as a child on the farm, building their hills one grain of sand at a time, only to have them senselessly destroyed in an instant by a passing foot. I'd pieced my life together the same way, slowly and agonizingly. Would it, too, be kicked callously into dust?
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The quality of life is determined by its activities.
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Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.
