Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes
You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.
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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
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A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.
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I started drama in high school.
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I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
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I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
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I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.'
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Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.
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Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it.
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If the artist has outer and inner eyes for nature, nature rewards him by giving him inspiration.
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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
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Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
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Everybody is happier living in a mixed-income neighborhood.
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I pride myself on being tragically uncool.
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There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it.
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Johnson said that he could repeat a complete chapter of 'The Natural History of Iceland' from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus: 'There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island.' 62 Chap. lxxii.
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Not to say that authors are all such sourpusses, but you meet the author in the best possible way, on the written page. I am at my best there, more patient, more thoughtful.
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Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.
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You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.
