Luvvie Ajayi Quotes
I wish people were realer in talking about how leaps of faith don't have to be taken without at least looking down first.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.
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I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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There's an appetite for vigour in films. The camera loves a bit of movement. Movement is usually attached to younger people and men, and that's just the way it is. I think that it's a bitter pill to swallow, but it's a fact that there aren't going to be masses and masses of roles for older women because there isn't the audience for it.
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Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
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I wish people were realer in talking about how leaps of faith don't have to be taken without at least looking down first.
