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.
Dan Pink
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
Beck
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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.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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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.
Warren Ellis
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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.
Rachel Kushner
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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.
Larry Holmes
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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.
K. A. Applegate
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
Laura Prepon
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
Faye Marsay
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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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.
Sam Altman
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
Daniel Berrigan
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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.
Aaron Paul
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
Sam Yagan
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Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
Fatema Mernissi
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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.
Caitlin Moran
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
F. W. de Klerk
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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.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
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Flirting all starts with eye contact! You can tell a girl is into you if she's across the room and still making eye contact with you.
Chandler Parsons
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For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
Zong Qinghou
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Sometimes, people only change what they look like for the acceptance of other people, and that's where you start going wrong.
Lamman Rucker
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What seems strange is that Obama elicits such extreme dislike when, in fact, he is an exemplary family man, and his policy positions would have made him a conventional liberal Republican not that long ago.
David Horsey
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Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place.
Ann Cleeves
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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.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje