Teyonah Parris Quotes

I always want to tell the truth. It doesn't have to be a pretty truth, and it doesn't have to be a life-changing and life-threatening truth like 'Chi-Raq.' But I want to tell someone's truth in an effort to inspire people to see themselves reflected on the screen.

Teyonah Parris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 22, 1987

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The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence, long or short, active or passive.

Joan Didion

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My Helmut Lang leather pants are my most treasured possession - I've worn them almost every day for two years, and they look good with everything.

Jessica Hart

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I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way.

John McAfee

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I just go back to my roots. I was literally born 26 miles from Martinsville High School where Coach Wooden grew up, and then my dad coached there for four years.

Steve Alford

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I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

Sting

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When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words.

Michael Morpurgo

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I primarily have had my career in comedy, and that is something that I have never been too concerned about because I know there is really no room for vanity in comedy. Comedy comes from pain and it is a lot easier to empathize with somebody who is out of shape.

Chris Pratt

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I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.

Allen Iverson

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We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.

Alfred Kastler

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The background of any artist is shaped by the first 15 years of his or her life.

Pete Hamill

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'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

Thomas Hood

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It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

Nigel Farage

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