Babatunde Adebimpe Quotes
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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I'm an exercise and yoga junkie and I feel good.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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Normally when I look at stuff, I try to look at the good things. When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those.
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I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
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One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
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In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.
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If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.
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American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
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My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
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Planned Parenthood is a pretty popular organization. Way more popular than Congress! It claims that one in five women have received care from one of its clinics. And this care, despite what abortion opponents say, is excellent and not easily replaceable by 'community health centers.' Texas tried it, and thousands of women went without care.
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I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
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I have no time for women who don't support other women. It's the ultimate compliment when a woman tells you that you look good.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.
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Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.
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I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.
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Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.
