Camila Mendes Quotes
I often hear things like, 'You don't look Latina enough,' and that mentality is so backwards. The fact is, I am Latina, so how are you going to tell me that I don't look Latina?
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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I'm honestly all over the board. I think if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's country first, but I listen to literally everything: country, pop, rock, rap.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.
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I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?
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I have written stories since I was a child.
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I'm not out looking for a cause. They sort of find me or find my heart. But sure, there's always time for that. My big mouth can talk all the time.
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I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.
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Sometimes, the supposedly weak groups turn out to be very difficult, and the supposedly strong ones are easier to take control of.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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When I was a boy, I wanted to be a Ninja. Now I am a man, now I am a Ninja.
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When I was younger in the theater, I didn't really feel like I got much recognition from the powers that be. I got a lot of small roles - I never got the standout roles.
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Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.
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I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.
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So grand a structure cannot be purely and simply a tomb.
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My job is to take the pictures, communicate a message, to bring those images to the greater public through whatever publication I'm working for. My job is really to be a messenger, and that's what I've been doing.
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I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.
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What my people and I have done is to examine daily the queues in front of the assembly and in front of the bottlenecks— we call them ‘buffers.’ We check just to be sure that everything that’s scheduled to be worked on is there—that there are no ‘holes.’ We thought that if a new bottleneck pops up it would immediately show up as a hole in at least one of these buffers.
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We have this film that we hope to finance, it's called 'Southern Rights.' It's a documentary about segregated proms that are still happening in the South of America. So there's a black prom and a white prom, so we hope to finance a film soon about that.
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You can't be suspicious 24/7. It's too exhausting.
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I often hear things like, 'You don't look Latina enough,' and that mentality is so backwards. The fact is, I am Latina, so how are you going to tell me that I don't look Latina?
