Lupita Nyong'o Quotes
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
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I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don't want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.
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Imagination needs to be fed.
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There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.
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I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.
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It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.
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I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
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Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Justin Bieber and I are going to get married some day. I also like Tom Cruise. He's very classy.
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Magister artis ingenique largitorventer.
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Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true.
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I was working part-time as a cleaner while I was going to college and then babysitting after school.
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I ought to be more hardboiled; I'd like to be. I don't think I have it in me. To write in clipped sentences. To employ gritty metaphor in the introduction of sultry blondes... I can't do it, so why bother trying?
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Right before 'Brian's Song' there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depressed; my first marriage was on the rocks. The role of Gale Sayers had been cast with Lou Gossett, and then he hurt himself playing basketball. I was called in to read for the role. I was their last choice, and I knew it.
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I don't ever want to be president - let's just get that out of the way.
