Khoudia Diop Quotes
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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I want to have a long career.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.
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Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.
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For the vast majority of those who are obese - those with a Body Mass Index over 30 - their size is their choice. They choose to take in more calories than they burn. They choose to take in high fat calories over low-fat ones. They choose to fad diet, if they choose to diet at all.
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Most of the available Indian films in Australia are Bollywood. I did not watch them. In my early days, I watched Satyajit Ray's 'Apu Trilogy,' which was a beautiful take on social realism.
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There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movies are more comical than realistic: 'Throw Momma from the Train,' 'Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot.' You don't sit in the dark and go, 'Oh my God, that's my mother.'
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Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,' three years for 'When My Name Was Keoko!' The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.
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I wanted to show girls it's not bad to be dark, that different is beautiful.
