Dayo Okeniyi Quotes
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
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I've never worked for a show or was on a show where I didn't have a lot of control creatively, but then again, I haven't worked on a lot of shows.
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Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.
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I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.
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Denzel Washington is someone I look up to.
