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Amandla Stenberg Quotes

People are getting tired of the same material; they want to see black girls as leads in movies. And I happen to be lucky enough to understand that - and be able to grab that opportunity and run with it.

Amandla Stenberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: October 23, 1998

Topics

Opportunity Tired People Black Run

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.

John Boyd Orr

Knowledge Political Fall Rise Social

Food is a way to explore culture and ground the story in a specific time and place. I still remember the meals and snacks from my first novel, 'Shug': pork chops and applesauce and Coca-Cola and peanuts, which are very Southern. When a character has roots elsewhere, food is a way to connect with home and another culture.

Jenny Han

Home Character Time Food Culture

You couldn't have human society without language.

John Maynard Smith

Society Language You Human Without

Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.

John McAfee

Fear Sometimes Turn Things Paranoid

Throughout the years following World War II and until the formation of the European Economic Community in 1958, I was very active as a national or international rapporteur at many of the international conferences aiming to establish an European community.

Maurice Allais

Community War World Active Years

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

Stanley Baldwin

Women Children Wish You Enemy More

Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman.

Brendan Fraser

Beautiful Together Woman Fun She

A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.

Bob Mayer

Day End Year You One Day Days

Moana doesn't have a love interest because this movie is about a journey - a physical one across hundreds and hundreds of miles of ocean, but also an emotional one of Moana finding herself. She doesn't need a man or love interest to find herself.

Auli'i Cravalho

Love Journey Ocean Man Finding Find

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

William O. Douglas

Freedom Alone Beginning Right Indeed

A leader in any place must ask himself who he identifies with, with which values, and towards what goals.

Tzipi Livni

Goals Leader Values Place Ask Must

Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street.

Ridley Scott

Looking Cinema Movies Street High