Adwoa Aboah Quotes
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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I will say this about the Miz: Even though I don't like his wrestling style, he is a very hard worker. I have a huge amount of respect for him, and I want him to do well.
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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
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I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts.
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
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It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to pacify your opponent; with expressing resentment you might stir up hostility in him.
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I hope that I'm also maturing emotionally as a human being as things go on.
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I don't feel guilty about any of my pleasures.
