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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I do have a tendency to talk a lot at the poker table, which throws people off because they spend a lot of time trying to read me. But I talk a lot when I have a good hand and when I have a bad hand, too. Sometimes it annoys people so much they can't wait to get out of the tournament. And that can only be good for me.
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Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had to discover new ways of dealing with the past. In this he became a master when he discovered that the transmissibility of the past had been replaced by the citability and that in place of its authority there had arisen a strange power to settle down, piecemeal, in the present and to deprive it of ‘peace of mind,’ the mindless peace of complacency.
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My father was more than apprehensive. He didn't think I stood a chance in hell. He had no confidence in me whatsoever and was convinced that I was going to be coming to him for money when I was 40. We argued about it constantly.
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My mom says I either have to go to college or go into the military.
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I have always been good at auditioning, but maybe because I had a good trick at the beginning. I would pretend that my agent gave me the wrong scene or lines. They would take pity on me and hand me the right scene. I would act like I had never seen this before - and then do pretty well considering I had already rehearsed it.
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To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.
