Ann Hood Quotes
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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I didn't know until high school that I was interested in writing in any real way. But there was this boy that I had a crush on, and I used to tell him all the time what I felt about him. Finally he gave me a blank journal and said to write it all down - and it didn't take me very long to realize how much I loved writing.
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I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.
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I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
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Babies make you do things for them. They get you up and they get you moving.
