Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

I got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin, and my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned. The morning would come, and I would be so excited about seeing my new skin that I would refuse to look down at myself until I was in front of a mirror because I wanted to see my fair face first.

Lupita Nyong'o

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: March 1, 1983

Topics

MorningGodMirrorMyselfPrayer

I can tell you, I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people.

Jerry Jones

BusinessSportsGreatParentsPeople

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

Aminatta Forna

StoryPoliticalPersonPersonalTell

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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The 70's hair with the long on the sides, just doesn't look good coming down the sides of the helmet.

Steve Yzerman

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Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

Simon Sinek

CulturePeopleManagementTreatHow

'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Tommy Lasorda

FailureStartThinkThinkingYou

I love performing for kids, but you can't play down to them, of course. Then it would be 'Captain Kangaroo.'

Rita Moreno

LoveYouDownPlayCaptainKangaroo

There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school.

Mike Birbiglia

FunnyTimeSchoolHigh SchoolStory

Occasionally, we would shoot something and think, 'This is it; we are over the line.' But the test audiences didn't have a problem with it.

Jay Chandrasekhar

ThinkProblemTestOverLineShoot

As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.

Jonathan Stroud

LifeYourselfTalkingYouNeedRoom

I always say that I take my life and turn it into story, and I certainly did that with 'Countdown'.

Deborah Wiles

LifeStoryMy LifeSayAlwaysTurn

As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation.

Coretta Scott King

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