Wole Soyinka Quotes
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
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Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.
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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
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Utah is America's best place for business because Utahns make it their business to succeed - and we have the track record to prove it.
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In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people.'
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We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.
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Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.
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I enjoy doing all different types of movies even though I am the most comfortable with comedy.
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Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind
