Ory Okolloh Quotes
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
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I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
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The joy of life is living it, or so it seems to me;In finding shackles on your wrists, then struggling till you're free;In seeing wrongs and righting them, in dreaming splendid dreams,Then toiling till the vision is as real as moving streams.The happiest mortal on the earth is he who ends his dayBy leaving better than he found to bloom along the way.
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I am a very good driver - a defensive driver.
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I'm not a song and dance man, so you're not going to see me on 'Glee' anytime soon. If you want that show to continue, keep me far away from it.
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If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.
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What an incitation to hilarity, hearing the word goal while following a funeral procession!
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Life is too short to play-act if you don't have to.
