Tessa Thompson Quotes

#1. Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.

L. Frank Baum

#2. As a kid, I loved going to lots of thrift stores with my parents. There was a period where I thought it was embarrassing, and then I started to get older - I realized they were really cool.

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#3. To love is to battle, to open doors. The world changes if two can look at each other and see.

Octavio Paz

#4. The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon.

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#5. I'm sort of obsessed with Harlem. Just its history. My father did the music for a play called 'The Huey P. Newton Story,' and they did a lot of work in Harlem. So as a little girl, I spent a lot of time in Harlem Library.

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#6. Breath with awareness is prana. Breath without awareness is just air.

Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

#7. God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#8. I think we just need to have a demand for fresh and nuanced movies.

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#9. The secret of marriage is thinking that your partner is better than yourself.

Molly Peacock

#10. Lyndi patted my hand. "That's how love is. You can't predict it. You can't fight it. Sometimes it comes softly. Sometimes it comes fast. Sometimes it's easy and sometimes it's hard. But always- always you have to fight for it."

Lyndi

Micalea Smeltzer

#11. I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.

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#12. I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them.

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#13. Like the American soldiers who went before them, they are putting their lives on the line to protect ours.

Doc Hastings

#14. Fashion is a funny thing to talk about. I think what you wear is definitely an extension of you, but I also think it's totally arbitrary.

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#15. People don't comprehend God with their head - they comprehend with their soul.

Sharon Dunn

#16. The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.

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#17. I try to pick interesting projects, the kind of projects that I would want to watch.

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#18. There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

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#19. It is the Muslim's conception of himself as the khulifa of Allah on the earth that makes him the vortex of human history. Only as God's khulifa, and hence only in proper commitment to the vision of Islam, may man act responsibly in the totality of space-time.

Ismail Al-Faruqi

#20. I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and people like myself, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Tessa Sanderson and the rest did it for the glory of winning medals for our country.

Daley Thompson

#21. Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

Robert Burton

#22. I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do as by the things you do.

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#23. I never want to repeat myself. I can't imagine anything else as upsetting as realizing I'm redoing something I did before. For some reason, when it comes to film, I'm very good at not repeating myself. Even though in the rest of my life, I'm constantly repeating my mistakes.

Doug Liman

#24. When my work gets crazy, I make sure to always have vitamins, water and proper food with me. That has helped me to lose 33 pounds.

Carnie Wilson

#25. 'Veronica Mars' was my first job, and for some reason, my character changed her hairstyle halfway through the season from curly to - I don't even know why - suddenly straight.

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#26. I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.

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#27. I'm always saying a mother never loses her peach pit instinct. Even with a grown son, you have to stop yourself from sticking out your hand when your child finishes a piece of fruit.

Joshua Henkin

#28. I eat almonds professionally, and I can't get enough of Yerbe Mate Cranberry Synergy Kombucha!

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#29. Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.

Gore Vidal

#30. People become like what they love.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#31. I am multiracial, and I went through different phases - at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-hop, and then the next year I listened to Joni Mitchell.

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