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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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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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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Tom Simpson is like the Bobby Moore of British cycling.
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When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
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I feel beautiful when my makeup looks great.
