Aja Naomi King Quotes
Sometimes people just need to feel heard, and being an actor has taught me to really listen.
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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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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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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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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
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When I was brought up in Sweden, there was a great opportunity for young people to learn how to act in our municipal theaters with their small companies. You would be under contract for eight months and have the summer free to take other opportunities.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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I wouldn't object to working with any former member of Yes, really.
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I'm interested in confronting police brutality and police abuse of cracking down on street performers and street artists, but also in valorizing street art as legitimate performance within the artistic sphere, where it's so often conflated with pan-handling and begging and not "successful" art. I want to change laws around street performance.
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Sometimes people just need to feel heard, and being an actor has taught me to really listen.
