Me Quotes
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I know how long it takes me to draw a page, how long it takes me to complete a project, how long I can work before my hand gives out, that sort of thing.
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I wrote 'Wish U Were Here' for Cody Simpson, and he invited me to perform with him on tour and be in his music video. He was shy at first. I think it's the surfer boy in him that makes him so mellow.
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For me, just being published feels like success.
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Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.
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Very ugly things were said about me.
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I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come.
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For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. It's not too calculated or technical.
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I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.
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I was a commercial roofer before this, until about age thirty. I will not work others under me and do not want to work under others.
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If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.
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I don't think I've ever tried to make something happen that I've absolutely had to force. You know how they say: if you can't avoid it, enjoy it. For me, it's the other way around: if I can't enjoy it, I avoid it.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.
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What I'll take credit for is finding visionary people in the company, or bringing them in, and then empowering them to help me.
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If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.
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My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.
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There's more to me than fashion. I just don't want to be seen as fashion.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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I really like supernatural stories, but, to me, 'Witches of East End' is really grounded. It's not just going for the magic tricks and keeping it superficial and action-y.
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She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
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When people laugh at me, they are not laughing in the way that they normally would at a comedian. They are laughing with relief, because the truth has been spoken, and political correctness has not strangled this particular gigastar.
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If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again.
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I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
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People think I'm going to be this really dark human when they meet me.
