Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Quotes
I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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I've been very lucky.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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You've got to be realistic.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
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I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.
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I'm very close with my friends. If someone was to ever come along and be the right person, they would have to get along with my friends.
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It's my job to accept my youth, to spread my story, to let people know who I am as an individual, because there's so many people who are blinded and think less of me because of my skin color.
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My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.
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I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.
