The courage to decide that I have a voice and need to do what I love. To believe that this opportunity is not wasted on me. To own the fact that I am worthy.
AJA NAOMI KINGI grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.
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There is a voice inside of my head that is trying to convince me that I’m not good enough and that I don’t deserve to be here in Hollywood. So courage is required.
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Sometimes as human beings, we’re so contradictory – we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves.
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That’s what I’m learning to embrace in television – not knowing what’s going to happen.
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When the doors to television were opened to me, that was quite a surprise.
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It’s been such a gift that there was so much TV and independent film happening in New York that I could be a part of.
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Being on a show with a female lead is amazing for me. I love that. I love the powerful woman who’s complicated.
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You don’t always have the time to do that. You learn very quickly, I think, how essential it is to come in with the strongest choice that you have.
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If you’re doing an indie and you have time, sometimes you can do take after take after take, but if you’re working in television on that filming schedule,
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I might make a specific choice for myself and then in the next episode the writers might write something that contradicts it.
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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,
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There was something to satiate my desire to be artistic and creative, especially when it wasn’t in the way I originally thought it was going to be.
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I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.
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