Luvvie Ajayi Quotes
In my workshops for young adults, the most important thing I emphasize is that anything posted online, no matter how private they think it is, is permanent.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
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Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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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.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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I could never imagine a movie being made from the way I had structured the book, it still feels miraculous that we made it this way without compromising the story, but everything has felt miraculous since I got that first phone call saying Martin Scorsese wants to make a movie out of 'Hugo.' I recognize how lucky I am.
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When you come to San Francisco, we want you to know where Salesforce is.
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Even before IIT, I always had an inclination to do something, even when I was in school.
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I can't imagine ever going back to working with somebody else.
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I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.
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In my workshops for young adults, the most important thing I emphasize is that anything posted online, no matter how private they think it is, is permanent.
