Nnedi Okorafor (Nnedimma Nkemdili Okorafor) Quotes
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Babasaheb
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I just think people should be able to express themselves.
Vince Carter
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant
Adam and the Ants
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
Gary Kemp
Spandau Ballet
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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
Nazanin Boniadi
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
Warren Giles
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
Natalie Wood
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
Mae Jemison
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I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
Kate Moss
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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
Dana Brunetti
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You're sent scripts, and for some, as soon as you start reading them, you feel an instant connection to the character. You know who they are, you know how to play them, and there is instant enthusiasm. Then, at the audition, you don't have nerves because of that natural affinity.
Ophelia Lovibond
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffett
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We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.
Mark Walport
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Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.
R. A. Torrey
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For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain co-ordination - she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.
Yana Kudryavtseva
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My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.
Benicio Del Toro
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Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge - they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.
Vissarion Belinsky
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Withholding the truth is lying.
Nnedi Okorafor
