Chika Anadu Quotes
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
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I'm not radical.
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New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
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A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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One thing I didn't want to believe in is that I couldn't have a family and do music at the same time.
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I drive a Nissan Versa and would never spend real money on a car because I destroy things.
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When you're 27 million strong, no one can tell you that you don't belong or expect you to just move along.
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Porter Square Books was the only place I could find that was dog-friendly, work-friendly, and had food. I was there all the time.
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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
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You can either get bitter, or you can get better.
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We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
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I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
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For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out the facts. We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased, and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.
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The sky is the limit as long as you keep the rooms practical, and I have become better at that since I had children. Function, form and organisation are all important.
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I entered the film industry sprinting, but not for long.
