Uzo Aduba Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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I would wear entirely one color: tutus, furry pants. It was totally outrageous. My family was deeply embarrassed to be seen with me.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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It's important to seize any opportunity one has to speak to their elected representatives, no matter the situation.
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See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.
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If I'm going out on the town in New York, I always wear Danielle Collins T-shirts - they are expressive, young: independent woman in charge of herself, her body, and her mind.
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I come from a middle-class South Indian family, and we speak Tulu at home. I never led a lavish life, and I have my feet on the ground.
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Let's put it this way: I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours. I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why, exactly.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
