Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes
When you're a large black man in Hollywood, the obvious stereotype is one of force and menace.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.
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I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.
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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
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There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck.
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I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.
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There are bands that I got into when I was 15, when I was mad at my dad and just wanted to be different. I don't think I'd give those bands half a chance now. But I hold some kind of nostalgia for them that I won't let go. Bands like Minor Threat and Black Flag.
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The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.
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When you're a large black man in Hollywood, the obvious stereotype is one of force and menace.
