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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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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I'm a big believer in playing truth and not doing things for effect. It's not about whether you look pretty or glamorous. It's about whether people connect. That's important to me in any work I do. For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing.
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I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.
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A lot of times, we also have to live and work. You have to make money to pay rent. In that respect, I don't think you can be so demanding. Those great stories are not the normal stories that come on a daily basis. It's a struggle to land those roles. Everybody is looking for the good parts.
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We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him.
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I feel beautiful when my makeup looks great.
