Philomena Kwao Quotes
I've been lucky enough to do a few editorials in the U.K., but I've never even been on a casting for mainstream commercial work. When I try to understand it, I think people are scared to try something new.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
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I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.
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I'm determined not to start dressing like I'm 45 years old now that I'm a mum.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.
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People who exploit their power and abuse others need to be revealed.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.
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I've been lucky enough to do a few editorials in the U.K., but I've never even been on a casting for mainstream commercial work. When I try to understand it, I think people are scared to try something new.
