“Don’t let anyone else take away your joy. If they don’t want to be with you or around you, let them go. Pick up your shit and keep going. You came into the world by yourself, and the next person’s lungs don’t help you breathe.” ― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
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In this episode, I'm sharing my thoughts on This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare, by Gabourey Sidibe. If you've read this book or listened on audio, let me know what you thought about it by dropping a comment below!
In this episode, I'm sharing my thoughts on This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare, by Gabourey Sidibe. If you've read this book or listened on audio, let me know what you thought about it by dropping a comment below!
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Audible Studios
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Format: MP3 Download
Pages: ebook: 256 | Audio Length: 6 hrs 54 mins
Narrator: Gabourey Sidibe
Source: Audible
Genre: non-fiction, memoir
Rating: 4 bookmarks
Synopsis: Gabourey Sidibe—“Gabby” to her legion of fans—skyrocketed to international fame in 2009 when she played the leading role in Lee Daniels’s acclaimed movie Precious. In This is Just My Face, she shares a one-of-a-kind life story in a voice as fresh and challenging as many of the unique characters she’s played onscreen. With full-throttle honesty, Sidibe paints her Bed-Stuy/Harlem family life with a polygamous father and a gifted mother who supports her two children by singing in the subway. Sidibe tells the engrossing, inspiring story of her first job as a phone sex “talker.” And she shares her unconventional (of course!) rise to fame as a movie star, alongside “a superstar cast of rich people who lived in mansions and had their own private islands and amazing careers while I lived in my mom's apartment.”
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Format: MP3 Download
Pages: ebook: 256 | Audio Length: 6 hrs 54 mins
Narrator: Gabourey Sidibe
Source: Audible
Genre: non-fiction, memoir
Rating: 4 bookmarks
Synopsis: Gabourey Sidibe—“Gabby” to her legion of fans—skyrocketed to international fame in 2009 when she played the leading role in Lee Daniels’s acclaimed movie Precious. In This is Just My Face, she shares a one-of-a-kind life story in a voice as fresh and challenging as many of the unique characters she’s played onscreen. With full-throttle honesty, Sidibe paints her Bed-Stuy/Harlem family life with a polygamous father and a gifted mother who supports her two children by singing in the subway. Sidibe tells the engrossing, inspiring story of her first job as a phone sex “talker.” And she shares her unconventional (of course!) rise to fame as a movie star, alongside “a superstar cast of rich people who lived in mansions and had their own private islands and amazing careers while I lived in my mom's apartment.”
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Gabourey is just hilarious! Click the above outtake from her recording session and you'll see exactly what I mean. Enjoy.
