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.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
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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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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
E. L. Doctorow
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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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I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation - and store them away for future use.
Laurie Graham
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I think it's my nature to - every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must've been losing before, because I was not aware that every major city had these critics' awards.
Jesse Eisenberg
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Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.
Stevie Wonder
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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.
Vittorio Alfieri
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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