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" 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. "
Tessa Thompson
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Kid
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" I was gregarious as a kid, but I think the idea of actually getting to know people, I'm just shy. It sort of takes me a minute to want to sit down and talk about myself. "
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" 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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" There are some people who don't want to deal with the fact that we are not forever. Some people decide to live life to the fullest. "
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" I think, as an actor, when you're starting off early in your career, you're kind of just seeing what lands. But 'Veronica Mars' definitely primed me to look for surprising, dynamic women. It took me awhile to realize how cool that job was. "
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" I'm someone that likes to not think too binary about human qualities. "
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" Media truly has the power to create and shift culture. "
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" 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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" It's so rare to have an ensemble cast of women. "
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" The beauty of working on a show like 'Westworld' is we're painting a not-too-distant future and talking about an aspirational sense of what power looks like in the future. "
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" I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East. "
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" Norse mythology is mystifying and fantastic and totally confusing, but you can draw a lot of inspiration from it. "
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" 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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Truth Is
True
" We have this real problem as human beings to put people on pedestals - with celebrities, with historical figures - and we forget they're humans just like us. "
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Us
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" '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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Reason
" Cultural change always precedes political change. "
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" Even while I'm really interested in playing female characters that are varied and interesting and dynamic, I'm not of the mind that you always want to play strong female characters. I think I just want to play characters that are interesting, and not all people are 'strong.' "
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Mind
Think
Strong
" I guess I'm sort of just a glutton for having moments when I can just do whatever I want to, which sounds terrible. "
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" I grew up partially in L.A. and partially in New York. In L.A., anything goes because it's really temperate. There aren't any fashion rules dictated by weather, whereas in New York, of course, there are. New York is seasonal, and also it's a fashion mecca, so people are a little more aware of how they put things together. "
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New
" 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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" 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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" I eat almonds professionally, and I can't get enough of Yerbe Mate Cranberry Synergy Kombucha! "
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" The Time's Up campaign is for everyone, in all capacities, contributions big and small. "
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" I'm really excited about this generation of young women that can look at a screen and see some brown people in space. "
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" What was so exciting for me about Wakanda and seeing 'Black Panther' was how incredible the women were in it. "
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" There's an unfair position that women are sometimes put in, in the context of superhero movies and action movies, where at once they have to be very strong and fierce but also sexy. "
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" 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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Point
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" 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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" Death is just a part of life, you know? It's what makes all of life more vibrant. It's coming whether we want to accept it or not. "
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Just