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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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
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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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I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
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Don't try to be anyone else. Don't try to emulate what someone is doing. Play to your strengths.
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Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.
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The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
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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.
