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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that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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The sleep of reason produces monsters.
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There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion of mechanics, astronomy, optics, sound, heat, and every other branch more or less of physical science, with pure mathematics.
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I think that American salesmanship can be a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb.
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I'm one of the handful of survivors of the guys I came up with.
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Personally, I love Toronto.
