Khoudia Diop Quotes
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
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Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
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And the ability of citizens to organize and advocate for change - that's the oxygen upon which democracy depends.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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By high school, I was telling everyone, 'Oh, I'm going to be a doctor when I grow up,' because my dad was always saying to me, 'Pick a career path where you're always going to be necessary.' But by junior year, I was president of choir, I was the lead in the school play, and I just loved being onstage performing.
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Being a writer can be a very lonely profession, but having a network of people who can sympathize with everything you're going through - from contract issues to the terror of changing your novel from past- to present-tense - is an invaluable asset.
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We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again.
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I feel beautiful when my makeup looks great.
