Lena Waithe Quotes

For me, it's about making art that's not good but phenomenal. James Baldwin didn't want to just stay above the fray. Prince didn't think, 'I wonder what the industry is gonna think about 'Purple Rain.'' It's just, is this honest? Is this real? Does this move me? The rest is icing.

Lena Waithe

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At the most base level, what an actor represents to the film industry is an investment. Depending on the risk profile, an investor needs 1,000 reasons to commit and one reason not to. That means you've got to do more work on your own, and that the machine is not going to necessarily do the blocking for you. The machine rarely accepted my code.

Jeffrey Wright

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When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

Ann Beattie

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Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

Jean Piaget

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From the outside, Yahoo was extremely successful. It was making money; it was still bigger than Google. But when I got there, I learned what a disaster of a company looks like from the inside. There were a lot of vice presidents, and it was basically a turf battle between them.

Stewart Butterfield

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Well, excuuuuuse me!

Steve Martin

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I like to create chances, to shoot when I play farther forward, but I also like playing deeper, as you have more time on the ball.

Toni Kroos

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I think my channel has a Disney-esque vibe. It's a friendly place.

Rosanna Pansino

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The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.

Doug Aitken

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Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.

Chris Rock

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It's not so important to me where I work. A lot of good writers and directors and actors come out of Hollywood, so obviously it would be great to work there, but there's some great stuff coming out of Britain, so I'm going to see what comes from all angles.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

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To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

Claude Chabrol

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I really believe that parents need to know they are shaping the future of their children.

Ashley Graham

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