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Let us stop justifying every shortcoming with that unacceptable phrase ‘the Nigerian Factor’ as if to be a Nigerian is to settle for less

Shortcoming Stop justifying Settle for less Nigerian
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

World Start People One
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It's not a prerequisite for an actor to be obsessed about his looks. I know there are people who don't look in the mirror at all, and I'm getting there.

People Mirror Look Obsessed
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!

Right Love First Line
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It’s hard to bewitch an African lady these days. Every time you take a piece of her hair to the witch doctor, either a Brazilian innocent woman gets mad or a factory in China catches fire.

Hard African Lady Time
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.

Actor Anything Approach Because
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I am not a tout; I am an actor.

I Tout Actor Am
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I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

Singers Artists Role Audience
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So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

Actor Movies Seriously Set
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There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

Rule Rollins Muscians Actor
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August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

August Messanger Actor Misery
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Farmer Barn Grain
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As an actor, I am good at creating different characters.
Actor Different Good Creating
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I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

Actors Parking Garage Highway
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The supernatural is the only Biblical factor that lends credibility to Christianity. Minus the supernatural, Christianity will be another heap of frustrated human religion.

Religion Human Heap Minus
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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

Actor Actress Devil Great
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Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

Many Detractors Unsurprisingly Still
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

Anyone Art Better Crown
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For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!

About Actor Added Advantage
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Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors.

Obama Michelle Tell Me
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Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.

Application Arise Cause Determined
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The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it.

Actor Also Always Career
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I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it's fun, and that's how I grow as an actor.

Able Actor Defined Different
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When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

Left Maine Always Working
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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

Because Brief Brief Moment Change
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

Actor Director Going He
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Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

Actor Applied Basically Everything
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Your integrity is a deciding factor towards building a brand. Make sure you make a straight plan.

Plan Sure Towards Factor
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I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

Agents Cause Chemical Damage
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I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

Actor Bunch Despise Entails
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

Absolutely Actor Believe Bleed
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If he tells you (lady) that he is a contractor, ask him to show you evidence of all the contracts he has done. Because the contract he is talking about may be you. He wants to eat you off! Don't be a fool!

Show Contract Fool Eat
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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

Against Align Because Change
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I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

Actor Audiences Become Enjoy
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Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

About Actor Insecure Know
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I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.

Actor Always Been Cause
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The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

Actor Important Important Roles Most
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I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

Actor Boxes Career Entire
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I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'

Actor Been Boy Career
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I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

About Actor Any Be Careful
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It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits.

Actor Better Bridges Even
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I think every actor's dream is somebody writes something specifically for them.

Actor Dream Every I Think
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I really never had any thought about being a legitimate actor, like a stage performer. I wanted to make movies. I wanted to do television and make movies.

About Actor Any Being
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

Actor Audience Author Business
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You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most essential factor is to love your neighbor. And to love you.

Always Buddha Essential Factor
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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
Because Did Found I Write
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

Actor Business Crazy Dead
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.

Actor Come Entire Free
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

Actor Going Good Good Movie
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

Actor Bourgeois Existence Profession
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