Quotes About Perception

I'm not at every party; I'm not seen everywhere. That's why people still care about my brand.

No one is going to understand your brand better than you.

We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making of themselves.

To restart a brand, you have to make people forget what it was.

You are as good as your product. When you are used and loved by everyone, your brand equity is high. When you are not, you're not.

I do think brands are like people.

I always assumed skincare brands would only want to work with people who have perfect skin but that wasn't the case which was a huge confidence boost for me.

I need to try and get away from that brat role, or people are going to think I'm a natural brat.

I'm always the one sitting at the merch table and talking to everyone at the show - and I think it's because I have this deep fear that if I'm not approachable or I'm not there, people are going to think I'm a brat.

I've just got face: he looks like a brat. The 'I don't like face.' That's how I see it. And I'm not a brat. Sometimes I'm watching a movie, and you see a character and go, 'I don't like him' - that's me.

It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.

I'm good at maintaining a face. If you've got that bravado, and people expect anything from you, then you'll get away with anything.

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.

Football in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport, even with a lot of people accepting the female sport.

My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.

I don't want to be 'de-ethnicised.' I hate it when people say, 'Oh I don't even think of you as a woman,' or, 'I don't even think of you as a black woman.' Well what do you think of me as then? A loaf of bread?

I feel like I 'get' boys. I've always been a boy's girl. Boys are easy; they just break stuff.

An artist could have a really big relationship, and then they break up, and any song after that, people are automatically going to assume that that song is about that person.

People who never get anxious always amaze me. The world could be breaking up, and they're saying, 'Everything's fine!'

I'm particularly bad at breaking if something's funny. I'm not professional, so I do often laugh, but less at what I do and more often at what other people do.

Breaking expectations, even as an audience member, is something that I have enjoyed.

In a way, metafiction breaks down the story and makes it less real. But in another respect, by that very breaking down, it actually makes things feel more real than they would to begin with.

People only go by looks. If you have big breasts it doesn't mean that you are dumb.

You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense!