Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.
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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
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Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
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It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
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Historically, aggression unanswered has led to more aggression.
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I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.
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Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.
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Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.
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Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.
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If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?
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I'm a serial monogamist.
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I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast.
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There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.
