Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (Jidenna) Quotes
While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.
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The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.
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My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
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If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.
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I'm sure drugs and alcohol perhaps would inspire new thoughts, but it's certainly not something that I use as a tool or a mechanism to create.
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When I started writing I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.
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While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.
