Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

Our business is complicated because intimacy is part and parcel of our profession; as actors, we are paid to do very intimate things in public. That's why someone can have the audacity to invite you to their home or hotel, and you show up.

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• I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Know
  • Never
  • Feel

• All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Family
  • Dream
  • Los Angeles

• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Model

• I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Good
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• When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Doing
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• I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Business
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  • Act

• Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Time
  • Day
  • Hair

• The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • City
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• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Change
  • Person
  • Awareness

• Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Why
  • Sometimes
  • Understand

• The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Beginning
  • Things
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• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
  • You
  • Clever
  • Convince

• This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Quality
  • Easy

• Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Progress
  • Disagreement

• Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Cool
  • Hands
  • Speech

• I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Work
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  • Genius

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • Time
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• Research has consistently shown that religious commitment and marital success are highly related.

  

  Neil Clark Warren
  • Success
  • Religious
  • Related

• A lot of the biking sequences in the beginning, like going down the steps and over the ramp, I of course didn't do any of that stuff. I wish I could have but I didn't.

  

  Alex D. Linz
  • Wish
  • Beginning
  • Stuff

• You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Philosophy
  • Importance
  • Advertising

• The thing that got me started on Twitter was just basically pressure from management and the record company saying, 'Hey, this is what all the other artists are doing. You need to be doing it also.' I didn't really have a clue what is was.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Management

• The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Business
  • Team
  • Transition

• Our business is complicated because intimacy is part and parcel of our profession; as actors, we are paid to do very intimate things in public. That's why someone can have the audacity to invite you to their home or hotel, and you show up.

  

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