Yvonne Orji Quotes
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My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.
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I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
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Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film - that's the requirement. If you stop, he'll tell you, 'No, no, keep moving.' You can't be static. It's a choreography.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.
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Me, I don’t want any children, I don’t want responsibility. I am gay, I smoke weed and I do exactly what I want in my life because of my talent. I represent an ideal which others have had to let go and they blame me for that. Especially men.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.
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Every time you're on stage, you're acting.
