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.
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Imperfection is perfection.
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When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
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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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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
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When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.
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Great success doesn't come in short periods of time.
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There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
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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.
