Chika Anadu Quotes
While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can and do relate to.
Quotes to Explore
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
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I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.
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I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.
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People still say to me, 'What was it like being in such a huge flop?' The amount of hatred and vitriol was surprising.
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… ‘I’ve only one hobby, and that is my wife.’
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I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.
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My parents owned a hair salon, so I learned a few tricks there. I can cut people's hair - if they let me.
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I keep my head straight by having the right people around me, from my friends and family to my management and my team. They all keep me in my place. If I didn't have them supporting all the work that I do, I wouldn't be in such a solid place.
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Should one of your employees have a physical or mental health problem, I would argue that it is as much something for the employer as the individual to contend with.
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Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts.
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There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.
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After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.
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Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.
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Brand names aren't important to me at all.
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I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.
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While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can and do relate to.
