Teyonah Parris Quotes

When you have filmmakers like Justin Simien, writers, producers, actresses like Lena Waithe, who are people of color, they're creating their own content and saying, 'You know what? We're not going to wait on someone else to tell our story. We're going to do it ourselves. You can be a part of it or not.'

Teyonah Parris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.

Joe Manchin

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When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.

John Grant

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One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

Jean Rostand

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Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.

Stephen Hadley

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Most people who are successful don't keep their money. One of the rarest things in the world is to maintain success and integrity - the kinds of things that seem so easy just starting out. But that's the human predicament.

Sophie B. Hawkins

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I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.

Spike Lee

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Something 'Drag Race' is really good at is portraying us as artists but also human beings. And normal human beings don't know everything. They don't have all the answers.

Trixie Mattel

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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

Mary Douglas

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I began to think about those that were in my situation that were not able to walk out of an abusive marriage, or maybe those that did not know where to go, that were in a single headed marriage, or widows. I was thinking what it was I could do to reach out to them.

Joyce Banda

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I definitely have a lot of different layers inside of me.

Jason Mitchell

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I honestly think that with our generation - Alex Wang, Prabal Gurung, Jason Wu, Christian Cota, Robert Geller - there's a different expectation of what our behavior should be. People expect designers to be good businesspeople and PR people, and I don't think partying is a part of that persona the way it used to be.

Joseph Altuzarra

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Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They'd yell out the names, and we just kept 'em.

Dick Dale

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