Ory Okolloh Quotes
As a young African, the sense of opportunity that fills my head on a daily basis is, I suspect, reminiscent of how young Africans felt at the cusp of independence.
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.
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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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You know, I do not know, I just want to date someone who makes me happy.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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After divorce, women’s biggest fear is economic deprivation; men’s biggest fear is emotional deprivation.
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You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.
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As a young African, the sense of opportunity that fills my head on a daily basis is, I suspect, reminiscent of how young Africans felt at the cusp of independence.
