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A man can get my attention by smiling at me and then coming over and talking to me. The best way to get a girl's attention is to start a conversation.

~Aja Naomi King

Topics: Attention Best Best Way Coming Conversation Get Girl Man Me Over Smiling Start Talking Then Way

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I have a girl crush on Olivia Munn so much, especially on 'Newsroom.' And Cara Delevingne, but who doesn't love her face? Viola Davis is my acting crush.

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Topics: Acting Crush Davis Face Girl Her Love Much Newsroom Viola Who

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A man should be well groomed. If you're going to have facial hair, it should be a choice, not an accident.

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Topics: Accident Choice Facial Going Hair Man Should Well You

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I thought I was going to be on Broadway. I thought, 'I'm going to do theater.'

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Topics: Broadway Going Theater Thought

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When you do a play, you have all this time to rehearse and grow into the character. In television, even though you're waiting and waiting and waiting, once you're actually on set engaging in the scene with another actor, time is of the essence.

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Topics: Actor Actually Another Character Engaging Essence Even Grow Once Play Rehearse Scene Set Television Though Time Waiting You

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Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.

~Aja Naomi King

Topics: Beings Contradict Contradictory Embrace Going Happen Human Human Beings Knowing Learning May Not Knowing Ourselves Say Something Sometimes Television

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As artists, we thrive when we can express our comfort and our discomfort. If a certain scene is really challenging for us, if we're in an environment where we feel safe, we're able to do our work.

~Aja Naomi King

Topics: Able Artists Certain Challenging Comfort Discomfort Environment Express Feel Our Really Safe Scene Thrive Us Where Work

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I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.

~Aja Naomi King

Topics: Artist Direct Fully Inhabit Means Produce Think Want Write I Think

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The problem of sexism is getting better, but I don't know if it's getting better fast enough. We see more roles for women that don't entirely revolve around the way in which they function in a man's life, but typically those women are almost always white, and even then, there are only a few of them.

~Aja Naomi King

Topics: Almost Always Around Better Enough Entirely Even Fast Few Function Getting Getting Better Know Life Man More Only Problem Revolve Roles See Sexism Them Then Those Way Which White Women Women Are

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Studying acting has been personally enriching because it has taught me to take the time to imagine what someone else's life experience might be like. To look deeply at how our pasts and the circumstances of our early childhoods mold us as people.

~Aja Naomi King

Topics: Acting Because Been Childhoods Circumstances Deeply Early Else Enriching Experience How Imagine Life Life Experience Like Look Me Might Mold Our People Personally Someone Studying Take Taught Time Us

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: January 11th, 1985

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