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My place in design history is to sort of interpret youth culture, and I think we've seen that done in fashion before - it's not a new concept - but it hasn't been done with the same vigour in a modern context.

Been Before Concept Context
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I'm constantly inspired by my friends and the people I surround myself with and the cities that I'm traveling to.

Cities Constantly Friends Inspired
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I started off as a kid who didn't care what my education was.
Care Education Kid Off
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I don't know where my parents got my name. I'm sure they saw it in a movie, maybe.

Got Know Maybe Movie
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Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

Above Any Anything Anything Else
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And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

About Did Extraordinary Extraordinary Things
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Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.

All The Facts Because Character Circumstances
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When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.

Actor Any Certain Certain Way
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I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character.

Accent Anything Been Character
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I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

Accent Accents Accessible Adjust
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Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich.

Always Be Different Behind Dialogue
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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.

Down Hang Husband I Love
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In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're going do unless you're faced with it.

Circumstance Faced Focus Focus Groups
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I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.

Available Because Becomes Done
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Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor.

Actor Behind I Can Job
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Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

Championship Championships Down Goal
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I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?

Because Characters Feel I Think
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There is a big difference between a human being and being human

Human being Big Difference
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The Nigerian Political elites are not immune from death but are stubbornly immune from any lessons or message it may try to communicate. Waste not your time pointing to the corpses of one of your own or their own; they can only pause for the dirge but not be guided by it.

Nigerian Elites Political Immune
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Death only takes out power and temporarily pauses its venom, but doesn’t teach its surviving troupe in custody of its reserved fangs, any lesson about its transience or ephemerality.

Power Venom Death Teach
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Covid-19 has one clear message to the leaders and the led; No where to run to and no place to hide,except your home.

Covid-19 Leaders Led Hide
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I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable ... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.

Actor Deal Doing I Love
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Man can fight man but no man can fight God.

God Fight man Fight God
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Death is a gown we must all wear.

Death Gown Must Wear
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In life, you need a best man, not a yes man. Don’t assume that a friend who often disagrees with you is a frenemy.

Life Best man Yes man Friend
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Praying to God for miracle money, without applying any effort is like waiting for a man to give birth. Money is the child.

Praying Effort Praying Give birth
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Dear Parent, The mirror reflects what you cast on it. Before calling your child ‘useless idiot’, know that that useless idiot is a reflection of the useful idiot that gave birth to him/her. Even in your anger, never speak ill of your children

Mirror Useless Idiot Children
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Your mind is just like a TV. If you don’t like what is being shown on TV, simply change the channel. If you don’t like what you are thinking about, simply change your thoughts.

TV Mind Change Channel
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I don’t take orders from Abuja but Rivers people.

Orders Abuja People Rivers
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If they want war, we will fight, but I will make sure my people are protected from coronavirus

Coronavirus War Fight Protected
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Is this lockdown only for the poor? It’s unfortunate for someone to go against the lockdown rules of the government at this time.

Lockdown Poor Rules Government
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As a governor, the right thing must be done so people must not die.

Governor Right thing Die Done
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The strength of PDP is overwhelming in Rivers State and it is evident on the streets.
PDP Rivers State Strength Streets
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Election rigging, subverting the will of the people is one of the worst crimes. I don’t regret warning election riggers from rigging elections in Rivers state.

Election Subverting Worst crime Rivers state
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Baba God O Pick up the call

Baba God Call Pick up
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Music is supposed to be a vehicle for social change
Music Vehicle Social change
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I realize this about life when people are somehow no longer part of your story, they imagine it will be a tragedy. Just keep going, your success will be right in their faces and there’ll be nothing they can do about it.

Life Story Tragedy Success
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Music is very wide and there is no reason to limit ourselves to just a part of it.

Music Wide Reason Limit
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We are quick to sideline people, even when we really do not know about their reality and experiences.

Sideline People Reality Experiences
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Drama is for TV, not for real life. Don’t play a part in someone else’s episode in which they are the only star. Stay clear of Gossip

Drama TV Episode Stay clear
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Pain me say no be me write Brymo's Ozymandias. Be like I dey sleep when the angel dey look for who to give the song to.

Pain Sleep Angel Give
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Each new day is a blessing, not a guarantee. Stay humble and remember your place in this universe
New day Blessing Guarantee Universe
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Dull Found Lately Read
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A stands for atom; it is so small No one has ever seen it at all. B stands for bomb; the bombs are much bigger, So, brother, do not be too fast on the trigger. H has become a most ominous letter. It means something bigger if not something better.

All Atom Mean Letter
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A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn’t get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you must do something about it.

Focus Future Optimist Right
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A scientific invention consists of six (or some number) ideas, five of which are absurd but which, with the addition of the sixth and enough rearrangement of the combinations, results in something no one has thought of before.

SCience Idea Enough Invention
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Everybody now wants to discover universal laws which will explain the structure and behavior of the nucleus of the atom. But actually our knowledge of the elementary particles that make up the nucleus is tiny. The situation calls for more modesty. We should first try to discover more about these elementary particles and about their laws. Then it will be the time for the major synthesis of what we really know, and the formulation of the universal law.

Universe Science Atom Knowledge
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I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

Science Modern Simple
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I am, always have been, and always will be proud of my Nigerian heritage.

I Am Always Have
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When I brought home a 98 percent on a test, my father would say, 'Ah, ah, where are the other two points? Go and get them, then bring them back.' My father and Nigerian culture has always stood for excellence.

When Brought Home Percent
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