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

  

  Haley Bennett
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  • Dream
  • Los Angeles

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

  

  Cameron Diaz
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• 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
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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
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• I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

  

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

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
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• 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
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• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
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  • Awareness

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

  

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

  

  Xenophanes
  • Beginning
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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
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• 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
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• Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

  

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

  

  Ferid Murad
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  • Parents
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• 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
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• I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play.

  

  Jerry Rice
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• I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.

  

  Peter Baynham

• I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Job
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  • Myself

• How much closer can I get to the common ear, the mainstream, and how much it can still be from this other world, this other place? That's the line I keep trying to tread but have my wings extend more on both sides.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • World
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• Given the rest of the economic news, including the fact that GDP growth is positive, inflation is still low, jobless claims are still moving downward and temporary services are firming up, that means the recovery continues, and we hope it will continue in a more robust fashion.

  

  Elaine Chao
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• 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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