Uzo Aduba Quotes
I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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I'm very, very amateur, which is funny because I'm not in the amateur leagues.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.
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Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.
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I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
