Aja Naomi King Quotes
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Being on a show with a female lead is amazing for me. I love that.
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Sometimes people just need to feel heard, and being an actor has taught me to really listen.
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I'm a little bit of a control freak, so it's been nice to learn to let go and just trust others.
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Television has embraced so much in terms of storytelling and in terms of a wide array of characters conveying stories from different points of view.
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I majored in theater, so I'd love to get back on a stage.
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I've never given my phone number to someone on the street, but when someone is a gentleman, I appreciate the compliments.
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I was getting in my own way. I would quit jobs and step out on hope and faith, and pray to God that I would book something that would allow me to just continue to act.
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Love is a complicated emotion because you can learn something or hear something that goes against what you have come to know personally. It can be very challenging to what you believe.
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A man can get my attention by smiling at me and then coming over and talking to me. The best way to get a girl's attention is to start a conversation.
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When I was younger, it was harder for me to find a black eyeliner that would actually show up on my skin. Being a dark-skinned woman, when you find something that actually shows up on your face, you love it even more.
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We all have our family issues from time to time.
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I've been trying to eat healthier, but sometimes it doesn't work out when you're sitting in front of the TV drinking wine, and you realize you really need ice cream to go along with it.
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Not everyone's high standards have to be the same thing.
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By high school, I was telling everyone, 'Oh, I'm going to be a doctor when I grow up,' because my dad was always saying to me, 'Pick a career path where you're always going to be necessary.' But by junior year, I was president of choir, I was the lead in the school play, and I just loved being onstage performing.
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I thought I was going to be on Broadway. I thought, 'I'm going to do theater.'
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A man should be well groomed. If you're going to have facial hair, it should be a choice, not an accident.
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I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.
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When I was younger, my mother tried to get me an agent because I was always singing and dancing, but whenever she took me to an audition, I would just shut down.
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Studying acting has been personally enriching because it has taught me to take the time to imagine what someone else's life experience might be like. To look deeply at how our pasts and the circumstances of our early childhoods mold us as people.
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I do everything on my phone!
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My hair routine is to let someone else do it.
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The advice that I was always given when asking for advice about acting was that if I could imagine myself doing anything else, anything else at all, then go do that.
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It gets a little crazy at Disneyland. It's a little bit more hardcore then people think.
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If all we remember are good things, then happiness is our baseline, and there's no longer happiness. We need other feelings in order to appreciate others.