Adwoa Aboah Quotes
I think losing out on jobs and, you know, being judged on your appearance... I definitely grew a second skin and got used to it, but more so now, I've realised it definitely contributed to a lot of things I feel about myself.
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I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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I've never seen anyone - and I've had the opportunity to work with some really terrific actors in my time - but Philip Seymour Hoffman is definitely the best I ever had the opportunity to work with.
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Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
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I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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I do have thighs and a butt. I have cellulite.
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Every little girl wanted to be Natalie Wood, as did I.
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I don't like losing anyways.
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When I gave a talk at TEDx, I thought that if I did a good job, the video might go viral.
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That's our goal every year, to win the World Series, like it is at most places. In L.A., it really is.
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Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.
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When I write, I imagine places more than people.
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When I was younger, I would see shea butter being sold on the street, and I was interested how people were still coating themselves in the theater of Africanism. You see that in dashikis and hairstyles and music.
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When I watch myself in movies I go, 'My God.'
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As we go into the driving season we will see further tightness in supply and demand.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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I think losing out on jobs and, you know, being judged on your appearance... I definitely grew a second skin and got used to it, but more so now, I've realised it definitely contributed to a lot of things I feel about myself.
