Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes

Personally, I love Toronto.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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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.

  

  Yuna
  • Clothes
  • Season
  • Shop

• I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Time
  • Need
  • Information

• 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.

  

  Warren Christie
  • Think
  • Best
  • See

• I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Think
  • Years
  • More

• 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.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Time
  • Done
  • Success

• When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that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.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
  • Writing
  • Girl

• Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Why
  • You
  • Know

• We are wiser than we know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Know
  • Wisdom
  • Wiser

• God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • God
  • Satisfied

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Women
  • Money
  • True

• 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.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Death

• My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Door
  • Grandmother
  • Security System

• The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Problem
  • Years
  • Last

• I love black truffles. I love white truffles.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Love
  • Black
  • White

• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Done
  • Want
  • Wisdom

• 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.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Courage
  • Fool
  • Intelligent

• I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • Love
  • Think

• It's only a matter of time before the English clubs become a lot more competitive in Europe, if not dominant, because our league is, by far, the richest league in the world.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • World
  • English

• More often than not I find myself in situations where I have no idea what I’m doing, and I feel no shame in revealing that.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Myself
  • Doing
  • Find

• People expect us to be a straight up dance band but there are many more elements to our sound that you really get to see during our live show and hear on our record 'See The Light.'

  

  Nomi Ruiz
  • Sound
  • Show
  • Expect

• Anyone who is drawn in broad strokes either negatively or positively is generally not very interesting to play.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Interesting

• You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Teachers
  • Priests
  • Sanctioned

• Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professional athlete. I knew when I got to college there was no way anybody was going to stop me from being an NFL player.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • School
  • High
  • Stop

• Personally, I love Toronto.

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje