George Ayittey Quotes
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So 'Suicide Squad' is just like, wow, so damn awesome.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.
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I usually prepare a track, and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.
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I feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail.
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.
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I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.
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Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.
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I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and not being an actor's son. I never knew whether it was good or bad.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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I'm not one of those actors who's very good at having a list of roles that I want to play someday - which is bad, because I really need to do it. I have people in theaters ask me what I want to do and I don't have an answer!
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I keep in touch with these people who knew me long before I got a record deal.
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
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I was one of the artistic directors of the Steppenwolf Theatre, which me and many dear buddies started all the way back in 1974, and I have a lot of that in my makeup.
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What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.
