Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.
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I'm very content.
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Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.
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I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
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On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
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We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet!
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We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
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I believe in giving more than 100% on the field, and I don't really worry about the result if there's great commitment on the field. That's victory for me.
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I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
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There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.
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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
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So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
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No child is ever born afraid. Fear is a learned behavior.
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If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on learning to write and to speak before an audience . Nothing is more important than the abillity to communicate effectively.
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It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
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I used to be much heavier when I first started out acting and did a lot of crash dieting and a lot of crash exercise - a ton for a month before you burned out. Then I made a decision in my twenties to only do things that I can do for life, so everything's kind of in moderation for me.
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I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.
