Philomena Kwao Quotes
I grew up in the U.K. and now reside in the United States, and my family is from Ghana.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
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In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
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There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through which I see the world is the lens that I grew up with. I am the product of a working class upbringing.
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I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.
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Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.
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I grew up in the U.K. and now reside in the United States, and my family is from Ghana.
