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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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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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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I could have kept writing 'Irish' novels such as Birchwood and probably had a good deal more success than I did, especially on this side of the Atlantic. But you have to try to do many things. You have to try to do things that you actually think you're incapable of.
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
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I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going to be out there, you owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it.
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Sometimes you can do the work in the moment, and you don't know whether it's going to really have meaning once time has elapsed.
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Labels and classifications of any type are not law, nor are they written in stone. It's up to us to be aware of this and confront it and break through it by doing things that shock and surprise people because they thought we could never achieve at that level.
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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.
