Clemantine Wamariya Quotes
I truly hope readers learn to believe in their imaginations and their ability to shape their own lives. That's what 'The Girl Who Smiled Beads' means to me.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
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Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.
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I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
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It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.
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You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.
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For a long time, I thought it was all down to dedication, hard work, and visualising doing well - that worked for a bit, but then it stopped. I've realised you have to be more practical and mature to make things actually happen.
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If our team is playing well and winning, it doesn't really matter to me if I am scoring points or not. For me though the more I can help offensively the better our chances are to win, so I just push myself to get better and hope it continues for the rest of the year.
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On golf: ... though aware I could never be more than a humble potterer, it was impossible to repress the wild upsurgings of hope known to all middle-aged beginners.
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What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay.
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People tend to think that metabolism is genetically predetermined. That you're either cursed or you're blessed. And that's not true.
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A skunk by any other name still stinks.
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I truly hope readers learn to believe in their imaginations and their ability to shape their own lives. That's what 'The Girl Who Smiled Beads' means to me.
