Lupita Nyong'o Quotes
I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
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I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Photography is an accident.
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I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.
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And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time.
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My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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I was very interested in acting as a kid. I loved to perform.
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Search as a paradigm will continue to be probably even increasingly important because the information that's out there is only going to grow exponentially - and the only way to sort through all that is by some form of search.
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I think in high school and college, you don't really know what your routine is going to be; you're still trying to come up with it.
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All I can really remember doing was listening to the radio and listening to records when I was at school. I wasn't very academic, and I certainly wasn't a very good student.
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I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.
