O. T. Fagbenle Quotes
My family is very nomadic - my mom, in particular, traveled the world as a young person, and her father before that, and I guess I have that inside me.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Geneticists in the early 1900s believed that nature - in an effort to avoid wasting precious space within chromosomes - would pack as many genes into each chromosome as possible.
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Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.
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Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.
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I'm a real romantic.
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I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.
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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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The thing about acting is you have to wait to be asked to the dance.
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The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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My family is very nomadic - my mom, in particular, traveled the world as a young person, and her father before that, and I guess I have that inside me.
