Tessa Thompson Quotes

Oftentimes in films, the female character, if she's not the protagonist - and often, even if she is - feels like an imitation of what a woman is.

Tessa Thompson

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I think of the important things: how to prepare, how to practice, how to prepare to practice.

Jimmy Garoppolo

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I could sell more franchises than I'm selling right now, but we're pretty deliberate about where we're going.

Jimmy John Liautaud

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My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?

Andy Kaufman

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I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.

Simon Hoggart

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To be honest, whenever I run away from something, I land up straight into it.

Shilpa Shinde

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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.

Rita Dove

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The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

Ruth Benedict

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The future path of the federal funds rate is necessarily uncertain because economic activity and inflation will likely evolve in unexpected ways. For example, no one can be certain about the pace at which economic headwinds will fade. More generally, the economy will inevitably be buffeted by shocks that cannot be foreseen.

Janet Yellen

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With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Johnny Depp

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I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West.

Christo

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For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.

Bob Newhart

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I enjoyed playing the dual role of an actor and producer.

Anushka Sharma

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