DeObia Oparei Quotes
Part of the creative journey for me was not to come up the conventional route. I didn't go through drama school. I chose not to. I came from a very working-class area, a child of Nigerian immigrants.
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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At TGC, we are firm believers in the value of making games that respect our players.
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The story of trying to live up to the myth is more interesting than the myth itself.
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history of art teacher, who saved my life at Farmington, was obsessed with Bernard Berenson, and I succumbed as well.
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I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
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Part of the creative journey for me was not to come up the conventional route. I didn't go through drama school. I chose not to. I came from a very working-class area, a child of Nigerian immigrants.
