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" I've felt this real need to ground my work in my ideals. "
Tessa Thompson
Felt
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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 spent two weeks in Paris by myself. That was my first time in Europe. "
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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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" Time's Up is really about safety and equity in workplaces, and that's a very multi-layered demand. "
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" Media truly has the power to create and shift culture. "
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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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" The Time's Up campaign is for everyone, in all capacities, contributions big and small. "
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" It's so rare to have an ensemble cast of women. "
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" I eat almonds professionally, and I can't get enough of Yerbe Mate Cranberry Synergy Kombucha! "
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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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" 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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Want
" Oftentimes in films, the female character, if she's not the protagonist - and often, even if she is - feels like an imitation of what a woman is. "
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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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" 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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" I think we just need to have a demand for fresh and nuanced movies. "
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" The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon. "
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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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" 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 grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them. "
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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 try to pick interesting projects, the kind of projects that I would want to watch. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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'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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" 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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