Uzo Aduba Quotes
I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and they don't let us do a whole lot in return for giving our players to them. We don't get compensated, and we've never looked for compensation.
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When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
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The roads in Boston suck. Highways included. There are potholes and bumps all over the place. It's not a fun place to drive.
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After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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It's not like being a writer is a very lucrative career, but you know, you just know when you've found what you're really meant to do.
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I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.
