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 think I feel fortunate to have been very well educated in terms of strength and training while I was at school at Stanford, and I think our strength coaches here on the Colts do a great job. A big part of being able to withstand hits is making sure that you've got a good base.
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I have the privilege of being the vice chair of the World Economic Forum's real estate council. In that role, I review a lot of economic data and original research from around the world.
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For the fiction students I teach, one of the most common mistakes is to start in the wrong place. Often the actual story doesn't begin until about a third of the way into their narratives. They start off instead with excessive scene-setting, metaphysical speculation, introducing nonessential dramatis personae, throat-clearing, etc.
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Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland... The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead.
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To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.
