Boutella Quotes

#1. I don't believe in doing everything and being mediocre at all of them. I believe in being good at one thing.

Sofia Boutella

#2. When I was little, I went to the Sahara desert and met an older woman with beautiful earrings that came all the way down to her stomach. She told me, 'For us Tuareg, jewelry is not meant for decoration. It absorbs negative energy that comes your way.' So think twice when you buy a vintage ring!

Sofia Boutella

#3. I make body chains that come from the neck, cross in the middle of your chest, then go around your waist. I mix them with feathers for a gypsy, bohemian style.

Sofia Boutella

#4. What color is it today?

Abigail Roux

#5. I've always said to the refs to not be the ones to decide the game. Let the players dictate the outcome.

Ray Lewis

#6. I truly believe the discipline I have honed as a dancer will bring me more opportunities as an actor.

Sofia Boutella

#7. I wanted a choker, and couldn't find one I liked, so I thought, 'I'll just make it.'

Sofia Boutella

#8. Fermented grief is far more potent

Jasinda Wilder

#9. Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?'
'A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#10. Working with Madonna, she always told me the meaning behind the steps and why I was doing these steps - she treated us like actors. So I feel like I've always been an actor, truly.

Sofia Boutella

#11. When I give my jewelry as a present, I feel like I'm giving protection to someone I care about ... I've given pieces to my mom, my aunts, my friends. I've even made bracelets for my dad and my uncle.

Sofia Boutella

#12. In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it.

Ram Dass

#13. When I was dancing, whether it was the music or the story, the question was 'Why am I doing this piece, and why am I dancing?' It is exactly the same when you are acting. You have a very close relationship with your body movement. You have to find the physicality of your character.

Sofia Boutella

#14. When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.

Rick Danko

#15. No one can really picture an African as a businessman. In order to change the current situation, it would be helpful if the aid organizations were to pull out.

James Shikwati

#16. When I was a dancer, I was acting.

Sofia Boutella

#17. So in the end, what is a moment? One action? A single deed? Or is it more? Is a moment like a school of silver fish? The sum of many singular parts forming one cohesive unit? I tend to think so. Because the moment I met Ryan, that was just one of the sum parts.

Marie Hall

#18. It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

Orson Scott Card

#19. Indescribably filthy jokes are perpetrated by a ventriloquist with the aid of a puppet.

(Quoted from the Bulletin of The Juvenile Protective Association, May 1921)

Frederic Milton Thrasher