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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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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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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Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.
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I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture.
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I am an Israeli-born American citizen.
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I'm a pretty good snowboarder but a terrible surfer.
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And so Christianity was the only evangelistic religion that we know of in antiquity, and, along with Judaism, it was also the only one that was exclusive. That combination of evangelism and exclusion proved to be decisive.
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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.
