Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

Lupita Nyong'o

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• The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Manipulation
  • Blockchain

• When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Love
  • Person
  • For Her

• You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Career
  • Success
  • Myself

• The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Fun
  • Way
  • Me

• I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Smart
  • Write
  • Own

• I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Single
  • Fans
  • Down

• It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Government
  • Struggle
  • Nickel

• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  

  Tacitus
  • Custom
  • Itself
  • Expediency

• What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Together
  • Movie

• My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Up
  • Music
  • Home

• I've enjoyed all the work I've done, and I feel quite lucky that I haven't been playing sweet girls all the time.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• I hyperventilate quite a lot.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Lot
  • Quite

• Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and I traditionally do. But I would hate to make it all the way to the Olympics and have a bad starting day.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hate

• I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Bad
  • High

• I don't like to get too involved in the idea that "I'm a role model" and that everything I do is right. I don't think that's the case at all, but I think who I am at my core, and what I represent at my core, is something that is meaningful, and can be something that other people can gain inspiration from.

  

  Mike Vallely Black Flag
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Inspiration

• The banana is good for retaining water, and the sugar brings me up. It's going to look like oatmeal when it's done, but it tastes much better.

  

  Helio Castroneves
  • Good
  • Sugar
  • Tastes

• The holder of authority is like the rider on a lion - he is envied for his position, but he well knows his position.

  

  Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • Lion

• The thing that you learn in directing is that when you're on the floor, no matter how complex the shooting is...you have to remain absolutely sensitive to every nuance of the behavior of the people around you. Because, ultimately, if you don't keep in mind the overall humanity, then the machine takes over and suddenly all you have are technically fine shots, technically good performances. The story's being told, but something's lacking, something mysterious, indefinable.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Mind
  • Humanity
  • Overall

• The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o