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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having life experiences outside of acting is something my family has always made sure happens.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quite honestly, I'm the kind of person to get my feelings hurt over something somebody said on Twitter.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always struggled with Hollywood feeling trivial. Red carpets aren't worth it.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are in the public eye as a person of color, you are given very little room to mess up.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel comfortable putting my political stances out there without feeling as though I am filling some sort of quota. I don't have a wokeness quota for the day.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, getting into college was a big deal because I realized it's probably one of the only things I've fully planned. The rest of my life has been, for the most part, a nice little happy accident. I'm glad that it happened this way, but it's nonetheless unintentional.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maintaining a sense of your personality grounds you in your space. I try and just make what I wear a reflection of how I feel at that moment, at that particular place in time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fortunately I can say that social media has treated me pretty well. I've been exempt from a lot of the mean comments.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the history of art and fashion, it's always been political. It's always been pushing boundaries.
- Birthday
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved watches. It's been the one thing that I've asked for, whether it was every Christmas or a birthday.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
What modeling taught me at a young age was how to say 'no,' which is something girls - we're not always good at saying 'no.' We want to be nice, and then we forget to look out for ourselves.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mama is African American and from Wisconsin. My baba was born in Iran. My parents have stressed the idea of creating your own path, and creating your own identity is part of that. That's why embracing these two cultures is important to me.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Minnesota, where I was born, and I did print ads and commercials. And that was always cool 'cause when you're little, you can only work two hours a day, and it changes.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to roll with it 'cause that's what makes it funny. It's not being stuck in your character and how you're gonna do something, but to react to other people and to really have a real-life conversation.
- Emailed
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever.
- Confusing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I've always been concerned about is the objectification of women in ads, and that's one thing where I was like, 'Well, if I become a part of advertising, I could change that.'
- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that used to worry me is the fact that it seemed like Harvard was this big scary thing where I would have to spend all my time studying just to get in. But getting to go to both campuses of Harvard and Oxford and getting to meet some of the professors was absolutely amazing.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, personally, I'm usually not on my phone that much. I prefer listening to old radio shows and watching foreign films than tweeting.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020