Uzo Aduba Quotes
People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
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I want people to look at me in the future and feel that there's this Asian hip-hop artist who's fresh and hot.
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lines 510–524, as translated by R. Potter (1860)
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When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
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People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.
