Ashley Madekwe Quotes
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My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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America is a meritocracy.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out.
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We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
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I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd rather just pick up the phone. Or Skype.
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I love big summer dresses, and it sucks because I'm such a little person, so I always have to be very specific about which ones I put on.
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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
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Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years, their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves.
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Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.
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If for you the most important thing is to make a lot of money, then you don't want to take a certain type of risk. If, on another hand, the most important thing to you is to make people around you have a more fulfilled life, then there is a different set of things that are important to you. Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.
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I believe Timothy McVeigh getting the death penalty for his heinous act of killing over a hundred in Oklahoma City, that could very well deter others that might want to enter into that similar conduct.
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I am against the death penalty.
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If I love something, I wear it to death!
