Naima Adedapo Quotes
I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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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.
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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.
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
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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.
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I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
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I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.
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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.
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I am an ordinary person.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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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.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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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.
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I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.
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First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
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So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself.
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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
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But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.
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I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.
