Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes
I've played many criminals, but I loved playing somebody on the right side of the law who had a family and who had ethics.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
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I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.
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Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.
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I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad.
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I've played many criminals, but I loved playing somebody on the right side of the law who had a family and who had ethics.
