Khoudia Diop Quotes
My sister was the one person who told me not to change, that my skin was beautiful. She really helped me feel good about myself.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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My hunger is always there.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.
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You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.
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Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
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My sister was the one person who told me not to change, that my skin was beautiful. She really helped me feel good about myself.
