Aja Naomi King Quotes
Sometimes people just need to feel heard, and being an actor has taught me to really listen.
Quotes to Explore
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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Broadway is really my life.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.
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The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know Him. In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined. Prayer is meant to dissolve the worldly focus, to dissolve our sense of a separate self, to help us detach from an insane world order. We pray that He might flood our minds. Prayer is like pouring hot water on an ice cube, melting the cold and encrusted thought forms that still surround our hearts.
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I think that divorce is a vital escape hatch for people stuck in marriage and it is not a sentence of doom either for adults or children. The community should develop better support systems for saving or restoring potentially healthy marriages.But we should also help people who decide to divorce have healthier partings.
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Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.
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Since September 2013, I have been in a really good place with my health. But I still have to be conscious about keeping it in that good place and taking care of myself.
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Sometimes people just need to feel heard, and being an actor has taught me to really listen.
