Academy awards Quote by Lupita Nyong'o

“It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.”

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I loved duping my parents; I liked manipulating them. It was a way for me to stand out. It was fun.

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As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

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As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the…

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I'm pretty awesome at making salad dressings.

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You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

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I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through…

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One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off of instinct,…

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Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.

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We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

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What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

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It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how…

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We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse.

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