Fred Wilson Quotes
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
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I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that.
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I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
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I was the one who was always calling people.
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My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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I love standing on the pitch too much to focus on anything else - if I want to be a coach or something.
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At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.
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I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.
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Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.
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I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that.
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
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Every day when I'm thinking about something or want to do something, I say, "Hey, can we shoot some stuff?" or "Hey, can you come with me to the grocery store?" or "Hey, can you..." Just so I can share my personality and who I am, and also use it as a platform to do bigger, more important things.
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One of the things I'm adamant about as a bandleader is not micromanaging. I'm an advocate for the concept of allowing everyone to be fully vested in what they're doing, so everyone contributes whatever they're inspired to contribute. Our music is not about me; I contribute one part, one experience, and drummer Terreon Gully brings something completely different.
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I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
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I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.
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I was often in the pit lane, the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.
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To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.
