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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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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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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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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What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.
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I'm proud to have played characters who've inspired people to live out loud, and I'm lucky to have reached an audience that's been incredibly enthusiastic and supportive.
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'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
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The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.
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I think anybody can do any of these if they train. I don't recommend it, but anybody could do it if there was a need.
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I try to dress the bottom I have. The body I have and the bottom I have. I have the intention of looking fabulous every time, and I care about it a great deal. I'm very vain.
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Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
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Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.
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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.
