"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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Source : "'The Walking Dead's' Danai Gurira Excited to Embody Badass Michonne". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 22, 2012.

Danai Gurira

#Fighting Quotes #Play Quotes #Nyu Quotes

“So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.”
“Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet.”
“One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.”
“journalism was for me more than a business or a profession. It was a way of living, of experiencing the world even as I instantly distanced myself from it, in order to recreate what I'd witnessed for the public.”

Source : Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.137, Penguin
“The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.”
“If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.”
“When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.”

Source : Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.220, Hachette UK

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