Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes
By the time I was 16, I was someone to reckon with. I was so eager to repudiate any connection with any immigrant race, I would go above and beyond. I was desperate to belong to something. That was my drive as a teenager.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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I feel great physically. I feel really good.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than any party affiliation.
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When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
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'I think that I will not answer that question,' he said at last. 'I would create as many false images as there were ears to hear me.''Half as many,' Clissum pointed out delicately.
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The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.
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Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
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By the time I was 16, I was someone to reckon with. I was so eager to repudiate any connection with any immigrant race, I would go above and beyond. I was desperate to belong to something. That was my drive as a teenager.
