Aja Naomi King Quotes
I saw 'Birth' at the Sundance Film Festival with a thousand other strangers, and I couldn't believe that was me in the film. I didn't recognize myself.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.
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The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
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I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
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Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.
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I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.
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If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
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But you will imagine that it is best that He should at once enable you to see clearly. If it is, you may be sure He will do it. He never makes mistakes. But He often deals far differently with His disciples. He lets them grope their way in the dark until they fully learn how blind they are, how helpless, how absolutely in need of Him. What His methods will be with you I cannot foretell. But you may be sure that He never works in an arbitrary way. He has a reason for everything He does. You may not understand why He leads you now in this way and now in that, but you may, nay, you must believe that perfection is stamped on His every act.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I saw 'Birth' at the Sundance Film Festival with a thousand other strangers, and I couldn't believe that was me in the film. I didn't recognize myself.
