Lupita Nyong'o Quotes
That's such a powerless place for me to think about: what is working against me. I don't think of what I don't have; I think of what I do and use that to get the next thing.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.
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I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.
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I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
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I love to be surprised.
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If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.
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I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.
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My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.
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The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
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The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay 'forever young at heart.'
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Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.
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Such cold mean flowers the spring puts forth betime,Before the sun hath thoroughly heat the clime.
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Moral solipsism.
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I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.
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I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
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Even among those who have no special allegiance to a particular branch of Christianity, there are plenty of seekers as well as agnostics and atheists who harbor a certain curiosity about Jesus and his story.
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As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.
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At the time I was writing 'Weedflower,' my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite a few elderly farmers and put me in touch with four or five of them who had been in camps during WWII. Some, like my father, were reluctant to talk about their experiences.
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That's such a powerless place for me to think about: what is working against me. I don't think of what I don't have; I think of what I do and use that to get the next thing.
