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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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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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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When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are.
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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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Speed is the No. 1 thing. Our core competency has been doing exactly this: buying companies and integrating them quickly.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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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.
