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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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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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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'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.
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Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
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Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.
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You think there's a rule book, in a way, until you realize there's absolutely no rule book, and you can use a red carpet to express something about yourself. There are so many wonderful designers in the world, and they create such wonderful things. Why go with something uninteresting?
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The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
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I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.
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Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind
