Adwoa Aboah Quotes
I was privileged in terms of where I grew up, and I come from a very loving, supportive household. But when I began to go off the rails at boarding school, my behaviour wasn't a result of an upbringing but more something that was going on within me.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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Every note is a lifetime for itself.
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Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.
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It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is.
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But we wanted to work in a way we never had, which was write everything together. We had to face each other in the same creative room, which gets tougher as you get older, because you don't want to be confrontational.
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My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
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I was privileged in terms of where I grew up, and I come from a very loving, supportive household. But when I began to go off the rails at boarding school, my behaviour wasn't a result of an upbringing but more something that was going on within me.
