Aldis Hodge Quotes
I hear all the time from our audience about how it's nice to see a positive African-American role model for the younger kids out there that are watching.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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I never thought I'd be an actor.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
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The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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When you live in a community where people know you, it makes you want to be good and decent. It's a strong influence.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.
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You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.
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I hear all the time from our audience about how it's nice to see a positive African-American role model for the younger kids out there that are watching.
