Noma Dumezweni Quotes
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Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
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I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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I don't know, I like the word sassy.
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Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
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I'd never hurt another person.
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I got irritated with people asking us the same questions. Like, 'Are you a real band?' Journalists wanted to slay us, tried to cut us down, and I just started caring less and less about doing interviews. With Facebook and Instagram, you kind of don't need to anyway. But now and again, we'll do something when there's new information to share.
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
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We're such a funky species. We're so violent, so greedy - this is how we roll. But what are we going to do about it? How do we move forward given who we are? Because situations don't come out of nothing. They come out of certain conditions.
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I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write.
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Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but don't rise to the level of nuclear.
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The thing that really matters to me is well-being and happiness. Maybe it comes from knowing people who have tortured themselves trying to meet these strangely narrow and rigorous definitions of what our culture thinks is beautiful.
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Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
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I realized that a lot of people in my family had sacrificed for me to have the opportunity to go to a place like Duke. I owed it to them to finish. I graduated with a 3.6.
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Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person.
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When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.
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Family - it's all about family. Families feeling safe and finding your safe place.
