Ayobami Adebayo Quotes
I think there is a dissonance between how much is expected of you as a young person, whether you are a man or a woman: you are supposed to go to university; you get a master's degree, maybe two, particularly if you come from the middle class.
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Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of the day, the job I do, it's more about the art and craft of it. If you're good at what you do, there's a place for you in the industry, no matter what you or your skin look like.
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I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.
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'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.
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I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.
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The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.
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I wouldn't be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.
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I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.
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The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.
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What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it in imagination until we have grown weary of it, having ourselves, in the meanwhile, become other.
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Good luck - it's always ready to use in case.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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See! This our fathers did for us.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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I think there is a dissonance between how much is expected of you as a young person, whether you are a man or a woman: you are supposed to go to university; you get a master's degree, maybe two, particularly if you come from the middle class.
