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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
Talulah Riley
-
This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
Barbara Smith
-
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.
Sadie Jones
-
The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
Oliver North
-
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.
Maggie Smith
-
We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
Wayne Coyne
-
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.
Taylor Swift
-
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.'
Carlos Pena, Jr.
-
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.
Imelda Staunton
-
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.
Van Wyck Brooks
-
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.
Mahershala Ali
-
Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
Nandan Nilekani
-
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
Magnus Carlsen
-
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
-
I do have thighs and a butt. I have cellulite.
Salma Hayek
-
Every little girl wanted to be Natalie Wood, as did I.
Lana Parrilla
-
I don't like losing anyways.
Usain Bolt
-
When I gave a talk at TEDx, I thought that if I did a good job, the video might go viral.
Cameron Russell
-
I am still working on patter and presentation.
Paul Daniels
-
When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
-
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-
All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions.
Charles Hodge
-
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.
Adwoa Aboah