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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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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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 actually think I need 'Homeland' rehab. And that Ray Donovan. I think I've watched every episode more than once. Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Wright and Jon Voight have made me fall in love with acting again.
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Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments.
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In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.
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Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health.
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I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.
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I asked for a guitar when I was 8 years old for Christmas. I have no idea why. I never had any guitar heroes. I still don't. But there must have been something in me because I've been playing for 30 years.
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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.
