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In this post, you’ll find the collected quotes for the month of August 2018.
Best of
It’s a lot easier to get over an argument when they attractive.
— Bresha Webb (The Breakfast Club – 8/22/2018)
You’ll make mistakes on the path to your vision, identify and correct them. You’ll lose folks on the path to your vision, mourn and replace them. You’ll face challenges on the path towards your vision, access and usurp them. Your greatest asset will be your ability to adjust without losing alignment with what anchors you to your goal.
— Amanda Seales
In the face of all of this, we persist.
— Laverne Cox (Transgender Actors Roundtable)
Knowing your weaknesses is such a strength.
— Lena Waithe (Hollywood Reporter – Drama Showrunners)
“What Ghetto means is innovation.”
— Amanda Seales (Smart, Funny, and Black at The Bell House (8/4))
“I’ll block a motherfucker in person.”
— Amanda Seales (Smart, Funny, and Black at The Bell House (8/4))
I couldn’t possibly empathize with that, but I’ll retain the knowledge of it.
— Lord Galford (How Not To Summon a Demon Lord: Season 1/ Episode 5 “Imperial Knight”)
You have to figure out [how to] get in where you fit in.
— Courtney Kemp (Hollywood Reporter – Drama Showrunners)
“We can’t control results. But we can be clear about our intentions.”
— Nova | Queen Sugar: Season 3/ Episode 11 “Your Passages Have Been Paid”
The harder you try to be righteous, the more your lies steadily increase.
— Alicia (How Not To Summon a Demon Lord)
You can live a shallow life without copping to being a shallow person.
— Camille | Sharp Objects: Season 1/ Episode 6 “Cherry”
The only measure of an action is its consequence.
— Henry | Elizabeth Harvest
“You are good, kind, safe, and so perfectly flawed that even your jagged parts fit mine just right.”
— Queen Sugar: Season 3/ Episode 13 “From On The Pulse Of Morning”
“I have learned the difference between a love that liberates and a love that feels like it’s always been free.”
— Queen Sugar: Season 3/ Episode 13 “From On The Pulse Of Morning”
I think I’m a puzzle that you have solved. And now, there are new challenges.
— Runa | The Innocents: Season 1/ Episode 4 “Deborah”
He only loved you for what you are, I loved you for who you are.
— Kam (Freya) | The Innocents: Season 1/ Episode 8 “Everything. Anything”
There is a thin line between keeping up appearances and flat-out hypocrisy.
— Lady Mae | Greenleaf: Season 3/ Episode 1 “Strange Currents”
Sometimes when we think we’re opening up, we’re actually falling apart.
— Seb | Kidding: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Green Means Go”
The Rest
I’m walking by faith, […] not by sight.
— James | Greenleaf: Season 3/ Episode 2 “The Space Between”
I just make a lot of noise so they don’t ask me any real questions.
— Harry | The Innocents: Season 1/ Episode 7 “Will You Take Me Too?”
“Love grows from humble hearts.”
— Queen Sugar: Season 3/ Episode 13 “From On The Pulse Of Morning”
The more people that you let into your life the more that can just walk right out.
— Lara Jean | To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before
For you, surviving is taking this picture, instead of being in it.
— KJ | Queen Sugar: Season 3/ Episode 12 “The Horizon Leans Forward”
You’re deliberately trying to break something so that later you can say you fixed it.
— Remy | Queen Sugar: Season 3/ Episode 12 “The Horizon Leans Forward”
We’re not the prize, we’re the bait.
— Oliver | Elizabeth Harvest
The bad ones live forever.
— Angie | Insatiable: Season 1/ Episode 9 “Bad Kitty”
You can do anything you want to do, which also means not doing anything you don’t want to do.
— Etta Mae | Insatiable: Season 1/ Episode 4 “WMBS”
It’s easy to keep a yes-man around, but a no-woman? That takes guts.
— Norman | Love Is: Season 1/ Episode 8 “Rose (Going Home)”
I think that’s what love is: Being a witness for the one you love—their complete journey. Defeats, and victories.
— Wiser Nuri | Love Is: Season 1/ Episode 8 “Rose (Going Home)”
“Your health is not a debt you just cancel. The body collects.”
— Adora | Sharp Objects: Season 1/ Episode 7 “Falling”
I never thought she was bad. She was just completely herself.
— John | Sharp Objects: Season 1/ Episode 7 “Falling”
Be honest about what [your] weaknesses are and reinforce them with all the other people who you are working with.
— Bruce Miller (Hollywood Reporter – Drama Showrunners)
If you can’t find the universal in your pitch, it’s not the right show.
— Courtney Kemp (Hollywood Reporter – Drama Showrunners)
When you are “othered,” you better come in there with something so phenomenal, and so amazing, that even though it comes from a world that isn’t their’s, there is something about it they can connect to. There has to be the universal law where it’s about a person just trying to survive or trying to live and even if those people don’t look like them or come from the same walk of life, they can still say, ‘I get it. I want to watch that.’
— Lena Waithe (Hollywood Reporter – Drama Showrunners)
When I created my own show, there’s a strong legal component because I’m like ‘I know I can do that’ […] so then, with the stuff you’re weaker at that’s what your [writers] room is for, to prop you up.
— Courtney Kemp (Hollywood Reporter – Drama Showrunners)
I’m not trying to hide anything. I’m just not telling you. There’s a difference.
— Buffy (Andi Mack: Season 2/ Episode 23 “Bought, Lost, or Stolen”)
“I always get to where I’m going by walking away from where I’ve been.”
— Winnie the Pooh (Christopher Robin)
“Doing nothing often leads to the very best of something.”
— Christopher Robin
Good tree, bad apple.
— Chief Vickery (Sharp Objects: Season 1/ Episode 5 “Closer”)
Curiosity first step to commitment.
— Zlata (Claws: Season 2/ Episode 9 “Til Death”)
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