I was studious and bookish. Not just as a child but also as a teenager. I took myself too seriously.
My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.
I strongly believe that Professor Longhair playing just instrumentals would be just as effective as stylized vocals; that's how much I believe in his music.
My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.
Some people just don't subscribe to labels.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
I was scared of failing, and I was scared of succeeding. I just wanted to be in a safe space and not grow too big or be too little.
There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.
Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing.
The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.
I'm an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody's energy. But I give it back.
My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.
I've just seen really, really funny guys, and if I didn't know them, I wouldn't know they were funny from the television. I don't know what it does, it just sucks it away.
I'm always just travelling out of a suitcase. You get used to it.
I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases.
In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.
The sun shines everywhere, not just at the beach.
The central problem in Syria is that Sunni Arabs will not be willing partners against the Islamic State unless we commit to protect them and the broader Syrian population against all enemies, not just ISIS.
I just don't think there's a sunscreen that gives you enough protection.
I'm super nice - I just get excited!
