Noma Dumezweni Quotes
I am very blessed to have this experience of being a parent, but do not negate me from this industry because I am a parent.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look - sometimes artists are a little afraid of really putting the makeup on me.
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My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in.
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We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.
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Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
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Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the punches when we hit a rough passage. But we're less prepared for our Second Adulthood as we approach life after retirement, where there are no fixed entrances or exits, and lots of sand into which it is easy to bury our heads.
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Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.
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To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
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With all the talent around, it's sort of amazing that a woman could be up here with us.
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The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.
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One of the things I've really come to realise is that the chances of arriving at a universal truth are increased if you remain absolutely faithful to the contingencies of your own experience and the vagaries of your own nature.
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I have great faith in 'ordinary parents.' Who has a child's welfare more at heart than his ordinary parent? It's been my experience that when parents are given the skills to be more helpful, not only are they able to use these skills, but they infuse them with a warmth and a style that is uniquely their own.
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I am very blessed to have this experience of being a parent, but do not negate me from this industry because I am a parent.
