Akeem Ayers Quotes
My great grandma, she's in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she's seen. I learn a lot from her.
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When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.
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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
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Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.
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Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.
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I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
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After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
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When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
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I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.
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My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.
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I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.
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In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.
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Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some sections of the audience.
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You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person loves you. It’s something you just have to believe or hope. But these things are more important to you than the fact that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. You don't think about the law of cause and effect or about modes of perception when you are in the middle of your first kiss.
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My great grandma, she's in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she's seen. I learn a lot from her.
