Adepero Oduye Quotes

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Adepero Oduye

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• When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • True
  • Small
  • Child

• I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Work
  • Never
  • Moving On

• I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Never

• Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Success
  • Look
  • Heights

• The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Night
  • New York
  • Airplane

• There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • People
  • Want
  • Relationship

• I think it's important to be diverse, and I hope we continue to see that as a trend in the fashion industry.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Important
  • Hope
  • Fashion

• Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • England
  • Recognized

• When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
  • America
  • House

• I can count my friends on one hand.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Friends
  • Hand
  • I Can

• I love film. I've always been enchanted by doing film. It's something I grew up watching - classics and directors I admire - so that's something I've always been passionate about.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Up
  • Love
  • Film

• Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • May
  • Truth
  • Light

• I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Friends
  • Lost

• The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Assumption

• Being an entrepreneur does, of course, give you greater freedom than someone who is tied to a fixed work schedule, but you'd be mistaken to think that you're going to have it easier than your 9-5 counterparts.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • Think
  • Freedom

• I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Like
  • Remembered
  • Succeeding

• I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom of fiction, where I get to invent everything, and tidy, conclusive endings are within my control.

  

  Michelle Gagnon
  • Freedom
  • Everything
  • Journalist

• I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Learn
  • Write
  • Newspaper

• I gained this new sense of control over my love life because when I called myself a 'man repeller,' you assumed that being single is my choice. I'm man-repelling because that's how I want to dress. I'm not single because no men like me. I'm single because I choose fashion over a relationship.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • Life
  • Men
  • Control

• As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.

  

  Marina Sirtis

• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Live
  • Alone

• I have a Twitter handle, but I never sign on.

  

  Adepero Oduye