Samira Wiley Quotes

I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

Samira Wiley

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I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.

Michael Jackson

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The internet population is going up and up. I am confident that this will be a huge market.

Robin Li

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I can't help but do things my own way.

Mat Kearney

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For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

Louis L'Amour

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My advice to new actors is: Don't be lazy. Go after what you desire. Don't heed the commonplace advice that is meant to discourage you. If you want it, go and get it. Be willing to work hard, and be patient. Be kind to yourself.

Judith Hoag

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I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.

Douglas Hofstadter

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I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

Donna Leon

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Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senior year. But I played guitar in assemblies whenever I could.

Bob Livingston

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I'm going to give you everything I've got, I'm going to put my body on the line, and I'm going to entertain you. Plain and simple.

Braun Strowman

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Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Alice Walker

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As a director, it became important to hear that specific role read by that specific actor, and you hear the chemistry, or you don't hear the chemistry. So I'm not so bothered by the audition process anymore; in fact, I use it. It's a time for the actor to actually get to the know the director and the producers a little bit, too.

William Sadler

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Personally, I am a church-going Christian. I love my church, my congregation; it's my favorite place to be.

Pauley Perrette

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