Sade Adu Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I voted for Barack Obama.
-
I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
-
I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
-
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
-
I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
-
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
-
When all are wrong, everyone is right.
-
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
-
Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
-
Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
-
I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
-
I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
-
When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
-
One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
-
Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
-
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
-
I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.
-
The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
-
We abstained from having sex until we got married.
-
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.
-
When you do movies on low budgets, you don't want to have a location that requires a very big light right outside the window when you're 10 stories up. You have to find a location where you have a terrace outside, or you can light from a second floor, or you can light through the windows for daylight.
-
Cats and dogs are a very good window into the natural world: a chance to see how another species lives and deals with its problems, what they like and what they don't like.
-
I think in the future we might see things arrive the way Prince announces a concert where a few days before the show he announces it and tickets just go up. You might see that with movies and other things.
-
The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
