Danai Gurira Quotes

#1. My favorite TV shows are Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, Modern Family, and Veep.

Danai Gurira

#2. You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!

Danai Gurira

#3. Are you kidding me? It's insane that civil rights are being denied people in this day and age. It's embarrassing, and it's heartbreaking. It goes without saying that I'm completely in support of gay marriage. In 10 years we'll be ashamed that this was an issue.

Chris Evans

#4. I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.

Danai Gurira

#5. Survival isn't lying down and saying, oh, poor me. It's finding ways to live and keep your light shining in the midst of the darkest circumstances.

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#6. Being part of the whole, as I grow so does that which contains me.

Chris Matakas

#7. I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.

Danai Gurira

#8. One conclusion is becoming more and more evident: The primary focus of any manager should be to energize people, to make sure that they actually want to do all that stuff. And doing all that stuff requires motivation.

Jurgen Appelo

#9. Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.

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#10. I've always been attracted to action stuff.

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#11. I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas.

Bobby Vinton

#12. I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

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#13. You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.

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#14. My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.

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#15. All the struggles that were fought for here in the United States for African Americans, you now enjoy the privileges of. You now come here and can enjoy privileges that were fought for by African Americans over several generations.

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#16. People with nothing to hide don't usually feel the need to say so

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#17. I remember watching 'I Love Lucy' with my little brother. We were obsessed with 'I Love Lucy.' And I just remember thinking, 'I want to do that.' I love old comedic actresses - Madeline Kahn, Lucille Ball.

Kether Donohue

#18. I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.

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#19. He's a sculpture. Painstakingly chiseled into perfection over the course of years, until arias could be written about his eyebrows, his cheekbones, the freaking shape of his nostrils. And me? Well, I'm probably a finger-painting. Done by a three-year-old. Without supervision.

Julie Johnson

#20. Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

William Hazlitt

#21. If you're a fighter, you recognize a fighter.

Danai Gurira

#22. I don't think you ever will yourself to win. I think you prepare yourself the best you can, get yourself in the best mindset you can get in, and go after it.

Jack Nicklaus

#23. A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.

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#24. I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.

Steven Tyler

#25. I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

Danai Gurira

#26. I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.

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#27. I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.

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#28. Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

Danai Gurira

#29. One of the great things about stargazing is that it's immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there.

Timothy Ferriss

#30. How we perceive, feel about and respond to people and situations is far more guided by the lessons of early childhood than we would like to believe. We may be adults, chronologically and physically, but too often the youngest parts of our personality are invisibly, yet actively, living our lives.

Charlette Mikulka

#31. My assumption is I'm not going to be recognized. But when I am, I'm like, "Dang, you know who I am?" I always think I look so different.

Danai Gurira

#32. A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world's second-most valuable company, with billions in profits and products that have improved every aspect of our lives. But Steve didn't get there by being a soft, fluffy, Kumbaya-type leader.

Kevin O'Leary

#33. My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn't any consistency.

Kevin Hart

#34. The best characters are always wretchedly flawed

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#35. Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.

Lauren Mayberry