Adwoa Aboah Quotes

It's really difficult seeing your role model or your parent cry.

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• Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Why
  • Door
  • Speak

• Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • People
  • Think
  • Cool

• I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Father
  • Own
  • My Own

• We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Human
  • Look
  • Biology

• Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Think
  • Blood
  • Lust

• Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Time
  • Money
  • Want

• For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Long
  • Success
  • Myself

• I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Life
  • Running
  • My Life

• Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Life
  • Important
  • Emotional

• If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • God
  • Me
  • Looks

• It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.

  

  Adam Brown
  • Room
  • Odd
  • Sharing

• When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Hope
  • Die
  • Forever

• The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Always
  • Serious
  • Data

• Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • People
  • Long
  • Woman

• My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Breakfast
  • Weekend
  • Favorite

• I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.

  

  Tanya Fischer
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• I have a very toxic combination of being completely determined, inflexible, controlling and being totally shy, guilty at hurting anyone's feelings, hypersensitive to other people's needs - and it's just paralysing.

  

  James Murphy
  • People
  • Guilty

• I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • Time
  • Music
  • Live

• Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Great
  • Business
  • Model

• You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • Party

• I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Different
  • Country
  • Fly

• It's really difficult seeing your role model or your parent cry.

  

  Adwoa Aboah
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