Adwoa Aboah Quotes
It has to be something people prioritize - it should be the number-one priority: representing all types of beauty, all types of shapes and sizes.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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People want to download publications quickly and read them without cruft. Publications that started in print carry too much baggage and usually have awful apps. 'The Magazine' was designed from the start to be streamlined, natively digital, and respectful of readers' time and attention.
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That's what a family is: a whole bunch of people coming together.
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'You must save yourselves,' Rogol Domedonfors told them. 'You have ignored the ancient wisdom, you have been too indolent to learn, you have sought easy complacence from religion, rather than facing manfully to the world.'
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It has to be something people prioritize - it should be the number-one priority: representing all types of beauty, all types of shapes and sizes.
