Zazie Beetz Quotes

Despite my career, so much of my life has been dictated by what I'm afraid of: fear that I am not talented. Fear that people will finally realize that I am a boring individual who doesn't have many ambitions beyond starting a family 'at a good time' in life.

Zazie Beetz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: July 1, 1991

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When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I heard Sammy Cahn was asked what comes first, the lyrics or the music, and he said, 'The paycheck.'

Jill Sobule

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Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.

John C. Reilly

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A novel I read when I was about 17 or 18 - 'The World According to Garp,' by John Irving - really made me want to become a writer. The character of Garp is a novelist, and at the time, the whole lifestyle of being a writer was hugely appealing to me.

John Niven

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In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.

Michael E. Mann

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Friends in the Midwest often ask me what it's like to raise a family in Los Angeles. I say it's just like where they are, but warmer and with more traffic. I also tell them people here seem a bit more tolerant of those who are different.

Steven Levitan

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My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.

Steven Wright

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Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

Simone de Beauvoir

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In any political job, you recognize that your time is going to be limited.

Rod Rosenstein

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Let sleeping dogs lie.

Robert Walpole

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The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

Mick Jagger

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When Broken Lizard writes a movie, we reject everything that doesn't have five guys as leads, so it needs to be cops or a basketball team; that's what we can do.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.

David Strathairn

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