Naima Adedapo Quotes
It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
Quotes to Explore
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Imperfection is perfection.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun!
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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I don't really want to repeat myself. For the most part, I always want to be doing something new. But there aren't a lot of gritty roles out there for women, and they are so fun to play, everyone wants them.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
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Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
