Adepero Oduye Quotes
The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was going to go to med school. My father's dream was that all of his kids become doctors. I realized in school I didn't like it. When he died, it was like a wake-up call. Life is too short to do something you don't want to do.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
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I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.
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You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.
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When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a 'Led Zeppelin IV' cassette tape in the garage, and it was just amazing-sounding music, not like anything I'd heard before. I remember thinking: 'Well, if God created music, why is his music in church not as good as this?'
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Positive emotional energy is the key to health, happiness and wellbeing. The more positive you are, the better your life will be in every area.
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As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
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The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was going to go to med school. My father's dream was that all of his kids become doctors. I realized in school I didn't like it. When he died, it was like a wake-up call. Life is too short to do something you don't want to do.
