Aja Naomi King Quotes

You don't know what's gonna happen, so you can't really plan: you can only go with it.

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• I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Improve
  • Manners
  • Sugar

• Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Teach
  • Inside
  • Nobody

• One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Things
  • Acting

• If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Good
  • You
  • Proud

• To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Truth
  • Speak
  • Easy

• Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Reputation

• I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • May
  • Party
  • Successful

• It's nice to look out and see your family supporting you.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Family
  • Nice
  • Look

• I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

  

  Larry Rivers
  • Always
  • Artist
  • Idea

• When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Great
  • America
  • Dress

• Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Purpose

• In Beverly Hills, around 3 P.M. on Bedford Drive, a strange rite occurs. All the men and women who have had facial surgery leave the their surgeons and walk up and down the street bandaged like mummies in Prada, waiting for their loved ones to pick them up.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Methodist

• When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • World
  • Never
  • Service

• 'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • You
  • Like
  • First

• Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Half
  • Meeting
  • Rare

• It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• In countries like China and Indonesia, badminton is like a religion. Players get mobbed in the street. In China, it is a national sport, and Lin Dan, their star player, is treated like David Beckham.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Player
  • Star
  • Religion

• We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.

  

  Lilly Ledbetter
  • Work
  • American
  • Value

• There was a very slight chance she might actually kill him that way, and if she did, she’d be brought up on charges. Unless, of course, she could prove harmful intent. She could see it now. See, Your Honor, he was going to f*ck me silly, make me like it.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Up
  • She
  • Honor

• There is a reason why all things are as they are.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Reason
  • Things

• The rush of creating sounds and mixing sounds is always an interesting challenge, especially for someone like me, who doesn't know about sound.

  

  Hank Williams III
  • Interesting
  • Challenges
  • Sound

• You don't know what's gonna happen, so you can't really plan: you can only go with it.

  

  Aja Naomi King