Wizkid (Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun) Quotes
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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I never expected to make a lot of money from music.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'
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I've tried to go out of my comfort zone to experiment with comedy onscreen.
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I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals.
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The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.
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I'm thankful because all the hard work and sacrifices were worth it in the end.
