Chadwick Boseman Quotes

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

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• I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Think
  • Actually
  • Radical

• I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Political

• Diseases happen in acidic environments, so it's very important to keep your body alkaline. Keeping a diet high in leafy greens, spring water, fresh air, raw almonds, lemons, grapefruits, and warm water with juice from half a lemon helps lower acidity levels.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Important
  • High
  • Water

• I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Wear
  • Did
  • Van

• My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Single

• The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Truth
  • Brain
  • Details

• I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Crazy

• The message was always, 'It's good to be pretty, but don't look like you're trying to be pretty!' Inherent in that is a lot of misogyny, I think, because the implication is, 'You must work hard to achieve a feminine ideal for which society has nothing but contempt.'

  

  Rae Carson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Trying

• If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Doing
  • Old
  • Fast

• People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'

  

  Gallant
  • People
  • Positive
  • Sex

• Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Me
  • Literature
  • Nervous

• In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Help
  • Small
  • City

• I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Growing
  • See

• I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Youth

• For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as 'the device formerly known as the cell phone.' I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong!

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Remember
  • Boy
  • Lifetime

• A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Kids
  • Model
  • Speak

• I just want to be at peace with myself, personally and professionally. I want to lead my life the way I want to without having to worry about what the other person may be thinking. Professionally again, I would like to be able to just do films that I want to without having to explain my reasons to my friends, family and fans.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Family

• In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Life
  • Friends

• I love my uncle to death. It just breaks my heart. It's hard for me to (believe) that this drug is that powerful.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Death

• When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

  

  George Foreman
  • Kids
  • Poor
  • Lasts

• When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
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  • Characters
  • Inside