Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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I don't read books.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
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I've traveled around the world.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
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Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.
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Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it's OK. It's when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.
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I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.
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Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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If you are going to tell a story about a child going missing, it's going to have similarities with a real life child going missing.
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Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.
