Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes
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For Eid - or Raya, as the Malaysians call it - we love to shop for new clothes for the festive season. There will be open houses to go to, and Malaysians love to look good for these.
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.
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I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
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Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
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We are wiser than we know.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.
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I love black truffles. I love white truffles.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.
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I don’t think it’s about a point of difference, I’d say it’s about being unique because my music isn’t anchored in one sound.
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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
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The actors I admire are character actors.
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If you study my paintings, there are no signs of human life.
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In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.
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Personally, I love Toronto.
