Imani Hakim Quotes
I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn't been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on 'Everybody Hates Chris'. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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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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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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I sleep better on the road than I do at home. I'm used to sleeping in a million different hotels. I'm not home very often, so when I get home, I have things I want to do.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
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Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
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It's not easy to have success with restaurants in different cities, but I like the challenge.
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Amadu is all about the family. I've never known love like that before, and it made me think, 'I want a bit of that'. It kind of forced me to get to know my family again. Another reason why he's so lovely.
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I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn't been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on 'Everybody Hates Chris'. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other.
