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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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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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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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.
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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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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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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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The story of 'A Dog's Purpose' flowed into me a set piece. The entire book was just there, as if I were connected to a streaming service, a novel wholly formed of character and plot. This has never happened to me before or since. I prayed for help and I got it. A gift.
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To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.
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If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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Every time you're on stage, you're acting.
