Lupita Nyong'o Quotes
It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
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The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.
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I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn't have floppy disk drives.
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One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.
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I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods.
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If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.
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Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
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By now you've heard the constant right wing attacks on the elite media and the liberal elite, who may or may not be part of Washington elite, a subset of the East Coast elite, which is overtly influenced by the Hollywood elite. So, basically, unless you're a shit-kicker from Kansas, you're with the terrorists.
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It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
