Chanel Iman Quotes
Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple.
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Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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I was born gay, just as I was born black.
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Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.
