Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes
Multifaceted and textured characters are always more intriguing to me. You never really just want to play one note. It becomes a bit monotone and boring.
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In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs.
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The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
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I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.
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There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.
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I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.
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My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.
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My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.
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As governor of California in 1970, Reagan endeared himself to millions of conservatives nationwide when he publicly rebuked the anti-war movement that was exploding on college campuses.
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Of course the shrieking desire for the scoop can get really strong, but so is the desire to safeguard connections and keep everyone happy.
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I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.
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It's time for people to hold these athletes accountable for their actions.
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The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
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It's interesting because with a lot of people who I've met in comedy, it seems not to matter what your background is. In terms of formal schooling - I feel like that's a nineteenth century term - but in terms of where you went to high school or college, or wherever, all that really is irrelevant, I have found, in comedy.
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Don't buy anything online that you'd laugh at buying in real life.
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It's funny - Americans are the colonials who ran away from the royals, and yet we're fascinated by them.
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Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and if possible, stay long enough to get a real feeling for what's going on.
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I've cancelled all my subscriptions to poetry magazines. I prefer to read the 'New Scientist.'
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As a fan and collector of 'MAD' magazines as a kid, I am well aware that my art is unworthy. I remain in absolute awe of 'MAD' artist Mort Drucker and loved Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman and Al Jaffee and Don Martin and Angelo Torres and Peter Kuper and Sergio Aragones.
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I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
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The people who don't know me only see me through sound bites, and everything's changed around. Things I've said are changed to suit the magazine or newspaper concerned. The people who know me have a very different view, I would say.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd face.
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But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.
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Multifaceted and textured characters are always more intriguing to me. You never really just want to play one note. It becomes a bit monotone and boring.
