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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We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.
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You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's hard and at times shameful, but then when you read those pages over and you see they have no life to them so you throw them away and force yourself to be more honest. So I suppose the answer is I see myself in all my characters, in their best moments and in their worst.
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The Fourth of July concert is invigorating in so many ways, in terms of what it feels like to be an American.
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A lot of times, when I interact with someone for the first time, I don't want to see the presentation.
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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.
