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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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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A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
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I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.
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It is, in other words, time for a national oil change. That is apparent to anyone who has looked at our national dipstick.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
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If I love something, I wear it to death!
