Camila Mendes Quotes
I use my hair as a tool for portraying characters. When I'm auditioning for a role, when I'm putting myself on tape for something, I always consider what the hairstyle is going to be because it changes the way people perceive me.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I think whenever you have a common goal with someone, you're going to bond. It's really hard to get two people together and be like, 'Hey guys, why don't you just bond!' But if you say, 'Listen, I need you guys to build this house, or I need you to do this or I need you to make this movie,' you'll get to work and you'll get close.
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There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.
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Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even exist.
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Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black America to be more just and generous. The truth is, we've already been through that, and there is nothing left to do. We're out of 'affirmative actions' of all kinds.
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I use my hair as a tool for portraying characters. When I'm auditioning for a role, when I'm putting myself on tape for something, I always consider what the hairstyle is going to be because it changes the way people perceive me.
