"I would love to say that the world is changing in the movie industry for people of color, women, the LGBTQ community and other minorities since I began my career, and that we are evolving as a species, but I think that given this social and political climate, I'm at a loss. It's like running a marathon and thinking you're halfway done and you can see the finish line - but the finish line is actually the first checkpoint."

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Source : Source: deadline.com

Alexandra Shipp

#Running Quotes #Loss Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.”
“For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.”
“Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.”
“In a knowledge-driven economy, talk is real work.”

Source : Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak (2013). “Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know”, p.90, Harvard Business Press
“Why it's been left to me to smooth things over, I don't know. Dennis Rodman, of all people. Keeping us safe is really not my job; it's the black guy's [Obama's] job. But I'll tell you this: If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.”

Source : "Grapevine: Nobel Peace Prize for Dennis Rodman?", www.foxnews.com. July 2, 2013.
“Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.”
“Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.”
“Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this.”

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