Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
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Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.
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Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.
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To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.
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When you're walking into the stadium, you just say to yourself, 'the 100m is the same anywhere, the shot put is the same weight anywhere.'
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I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.
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I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.
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There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.
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I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.
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My whole childhood was church. But as an adult, I've grown to understand my relationship with God versus how I sing. People in church are like, 'You sing the devil's music,' but I believe in balance. I can't just party with you. I got to help you, too.
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On stage, you have nothing to hide behind. It allows the work to live in a more organic place. It's almost like a meditation. You have to go on that stage and be as present as possible.
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Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
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People haven't seen me in a comedic setting, but that's who I really am.
