Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes
The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off - I'd rather stay in character.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
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I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
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I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.
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I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.
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In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
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If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.
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Literary fiction is fiction that examines the character of the people involved in the story, and that popular fiction is driven by plot. Whereas popular fiction, I tell them, is meant primarily as a means of escape, one way or another, from this present life, a kind of book equivalent of comfort food, literary fiction confronts us with who we are and makes us look deeply at the human condition.
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The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off - I'd rather stay in character.
