Lupita Nyong'o Quotes
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.
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It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.
