Barkhad Abdi Quotes
It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
Barkhad Abdi
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
Carine Roitfeld
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
Zach LaVine
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
Wayne Rooney
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
Laura Dern
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
Irwin Rose
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
Forest Whitaker
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
Salman Rushdie
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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.
Billy Crystal
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If people call into question my work ethic, that's fine, because I know what I'm doing behind the scenes.
Jake Arrieta
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I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up.
David Grossman
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When I happen to read interviews where people are such pros and they come out looking so good, it comes off as a little smug or something.
Emily Haines
Broken Social Scene
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It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
Barkhad Abdi