Babatunde Adebimpe Quotes
If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.
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I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.
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The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.
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If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.
