Naima Adedapo Quotes
I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am not an autobiographical writer.
-
I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
-
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
-
Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
-
When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.
-
I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
-
I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.
-
Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
-
I am an ordinary person.
-
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
-
At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
-
In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
-
But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
-
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
-
When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.
-
I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
-
I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.
-
I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.
-
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
-
A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.
-
All perception is colored by emotion.
-
You made these things up yourselves and now scare yourselves with them and even use them to plan your prospective policies. These policies have no prospects. The only possible future is in cooperation in all areas, including security issues. What is the major security problem today? Terrorism. There are bombings in Europe, in Paris, in Russia, in Belgium. There is a war in the Middle East. This is the main concern. But no, let us keep speculating on the threat from Russia.
-
I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.
