Teyonah Parris Quotes

I went to this arts high school in Greenville, S.C. In speech class, the teacher, a white man, would say, 'You're talking ghetto. Don't talk ghetto.' I'm not only offended, but I'm confused because while there's nothing wrong with people who come from the projects or the ghetto, that's actually not my experience.

Teyonah Parris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.

Joan Rivers

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It took me five years to realize what I could do with my voice. No Auto-Tune - cut all that off.

Jeremih

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Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

John Mayer

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The Beatles, they brought a whole new dimension to pop music. Of course, the psychedelic period is much more interesting to me, starting with 'Rubber Soul' and on to the 'White Album.' Great, great records. I was such a Beatles fan. I was very sad when they broke up.

John McLaughlin

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Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

Marvin Gaye

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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.

Jean Baudrillard

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I've done a lot of period drama before. A lot of my jobs have been that.

Joseph Morgan

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We're all just trying to do the best we can with what we know!

Jonathan Van Ness

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The Roundhouse was a complete shell. It was absolutely empty, lying derelict for years.

Richard Stanley

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I don't want to get stale. I'm always interested in new things.

Mark Frost

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I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-school parties.

Lindsay Lohan

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Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Leonardo da Vinci

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