Nwankwo Kanu Quotes
I think you need people who can advise you; that is more important that an agent. They are important because they help players move, but I have some experience of agents working with players who have done things not to help the player but to help themselves.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball's not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it's contagious.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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Eventually there are going to be chips in brains. Imagine if you could just buy knowledge and download it into your head instead of having to learn it. Like in 'The Matrix.' Imagine all the years saved!
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My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
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I just take it as it comes, and if I'm not offered something, there's always a reason, and usually it's a pretty good one. I'm not worried about it. You know, I've had an incredible career, and I'm blessed.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.
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It's better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.
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When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like, 'That's what being an adult is.'
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If I say I'm the best actor for the part, I mean it and I'm not kidding.
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The debut film came much easier to me than it would have if I was an outsider.
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'Alarm' and 'Ciao Adios' are about the same person, yeah.
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Out of every other rap guy, Wiz is the most humble, down-to-earth guy, like me.
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I feel like if I am physically and emotionally able to be at the theater, I will be there. I don't like not being there - I don't like playing hooky. I am just one of those people who feels really, really guilty if I am not there - maybe it's part of being Catholic.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.
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We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.
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I think you need people who can advise you; that is more important that an agent. They are important because they help players move, but I have some experience of agents working with players who have done things not to help the player but to help themselves.
