Ama Ata Aidoo Quotes
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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We play tag and kickball almost every day. It's one of the ways that I've figured out how to spend some fun quality time with my kids while getting exercise.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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'I'm excited by the band White Stripes. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.'
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Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.
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Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that be being rich is not the ideal condition that most believe it is. And like the land, we should have little need for all that silver when we cease breating. Let us enjoy the smiling faces of as many children of god as we can while we are able to see them.
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It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.