Quotes by Tessa Thompson - Page 1

It's so rare to have an ensemble cast of women.
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Ensemble
Rare
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Cultural change always precedes political change.
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Political
Cultural
Precedes
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Media truly has the power to create and shift culture.
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Media
Shift
Truly
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I've felt this real need to ground my work in my ideals.
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Ideals
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I grew up listening to a lot of Massive Attack and Portishead.
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Massive
Attack
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I think we just need to have a demand for fresh and nuanced movies.
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Demand
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I'm someone that likes to not think too binary about human qualities.
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Binary
Human Qualities
Likes
Qualities
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I spent two weeks in Paris by myself. That was my first time in Europe.
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Two Weeks
Time Myself First Time
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I don't spend a lot of time contending with the fact that time is not endless.
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Contending
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The Time's Up campaign is for everyone, in all capacities, contributions big and small.
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Capacities
Contributions
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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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Bowie
Admired
David
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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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East
Los Angeles
My Time
Raised
Splits
West Coast
Angeles
Time Born I Was Born
Los
Split
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I eat almonds professionally, and I can't get enough of Yerbe Mate Cranberry Synergy Kombucha!
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Synergy
Mate
Professionally
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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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Butterfly
Emerging
Term
Always
Me
Always Me Think
Out
Breakout
Cocoon
Inmate
Makes
Some
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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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Demand
Equity
Safety
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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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Precedent
Creates
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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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Women Black Me
Panther
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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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Confusing
Mythology
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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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Space
This Generation
Young
Young Women
Women Look People
Generation
Screen
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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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America
Hollywood
Truth Is
Anywhere
Particularly
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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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Death
Life More Know
Accept
Life Death Know
Part
Coming
Vibrant
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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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Forever
Live Life
Life People Live
Life Live People
Deal
Fact
Fullest
Some People
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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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Time Me Way
Different Parts
Period
Hard Time
Parts
Reconciling
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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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Arbitrary
Totally
Definitely
Extension
Funny Thing
Wear
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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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Imitation
Female Character
Oftentimes
Protagonist
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I like to think I'm one of the least athletic people in real life. I don't do a whole lot when I'm left to my own devices except wield forks and knives.
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Devices
Forks
Real Life
Life People Real
Wield
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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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Body
Defined
Real
Much
Aiming
Create
Realized
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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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Body
Real
Thinking
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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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Hip Hop
Next Year
Phases
Joni Mitchell
Listened
Mitchell
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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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Figures
People Real Human
People Real Forget
Celebrities
Real Problem
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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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Gregarious
Shy
Myself Me Shy
Myself Me People
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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 dont even know why - suddenly straight.
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Jobs
Character
Mars
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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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Halfway
Mars
Curly
First Job
Hairstyle
Suddenly
Veronica
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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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Sexy
Superhero
Unfair
Action Movies
Context
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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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Cool
Embarrassing
Stores
Thrift
Lots
Period
Older
Realized
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'Dear White People' started a conversation about race. It's such a difficult thing to talk about, especially in America because of our history. I love that you can confront it with humour and with satire.
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Dear
Humour
Satire
Love History People
Confront
Difficult Thing
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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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Harlem
Library
Newton
Work Time History
Little Girl
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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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Mars
Surprising
Awhile
Dynamic
Lands
Veronica
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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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Female Characters
Always Mind People
All People
Dynamic
Mind People Always
Varied
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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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Mecca
Weather
Together People New
Dictated
Temperate
Whereas
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