Khoudia Diop Quotes
My very first account was @BlackBarbie, which is what my friends called me growing up. Then I thought, 'You can either call yourself that, or you can find something that will matter to dark-skinned girls.' So I came up with @melaniin.goddess.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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I wake up sometimes, and I have this limp, and I'm, like, What if someone chases me, and it's on a bad-knee day? I need to be able to get away.
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You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
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I have a hotline to the tabloids. When I get up in the morning, I call the Star, and the last thing at night, I call them. I want them to have the inside track.
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I just want choices. It's not about making money and having a lot of friends in Hollywood; that's the last thing I want.
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Lucy Fry and I became very good friends on the set…I called her ‘Royal Higness’ & she answered, ‘Yes, my Guardian.
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My very first account was @BlackBarbie, which is what my friends called me growing up. Then I thought, 'You can either call yourself that, or you can find something that will matter to dark-skinned girls.' So I came up with @melaniin.goddess.
