Ashley Madekwe Quotes
It often looks like an actor's had a big break out of nowhere, but in reality, they've been working their way up, little by little, for a while.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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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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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.
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When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.
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I grew up in a place where a lot of my friends had horses, so I grew up riding. But I'm not an expert.
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I feel like too many people on the West Coast, they're too needy. They feel they need Snoop or Game. I never did any tracks with any West Coast artists. Not because I didn't want to, but because I didn't feel like that's what I had to do in order to get on. I just did music.
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It often looks like an actor's had a big break out of nowhere, but in reality, they've been working their way up, little by little, for a while.
