Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
My parents have raised me and my three siblings to be aware of the privilege we have been afforded and the responsibility it brings.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.
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The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful.
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Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.
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Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.
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When I realized I could use Facebook as a way to communicate directly with my fans, I thought it would be a great idea.
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One thing that people don't really understand is that as celebrity you rarely get fair treatment. You either get love or hate. It's never really fair.
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People think floating should be the easiest and happiest time for a company, but it's actually really hard. We were meant to think we'd won - we'd gone public and could go on to new things. But we were only just getting started.
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Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.
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My parents have raised me and my three siblings to be aware of the privilege we have been afforded and the responsibility it brings.
