Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.
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Parenting is tough.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.
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I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
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Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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Near the end of high school, I was always super shy, backward.
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People will tell you that you can't do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.
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'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school.
