Elaine Welteroth Quotes
My mom used to call me 'Oprah' because I was always in a corner crying with somebody. I've always been attracted to storytelling around women's lives.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.
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The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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it wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it man has oppressed us for a million years but he goes on steadily cutting the ground from under his own feet making deserts deserts deserts
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Women have a real talent for bearing up under hard times.
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Larry Hagman and I are very old friends.
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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.
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My mom used to call me 'Oprah' because I was always in a corner crying with somebody. I've always been attracted to storytelling around women's lives.
