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As an actor, I am good at creating different characters.
Actor Different Good Creating
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Comedy is what I love doing and I like to make it as real as possible so that people can relate with it.

Relate People Possible Love
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My aim is to affect people with comedy in a good way.

Good People Affect Aim
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It is important to make your audience believe what they see. People will always have different opinions on things.

Important Audience Always Opinion
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I don’t always place too much emphasis on religion because there were religions before the white men came to Africa.

Africa White Religion Always
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Even though I play the role of a tout, nobody wants to become a tout.

Tout Become Play Role
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

I Peak Radio Untruths
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I want to be remembered for something positive. It keeps me awake, thinking at night and creating more content.

Positive Content Awake Night
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Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

Speak Softly Far Better
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People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

People Light Dark Quickly
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Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

Woe Evil Good Darkness
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Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

Achievement Possible Good Look
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I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.

Brave Innovative Thinking Out
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I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

Don't Easy Songs Cuss
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As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

Road Playing Music Shoved
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God, when will you create a woman who will be fulfilled in herself, a full human being, not anybody’s appendage? she prayed desperately.

Create Full Being Woman
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I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

Lives Palestine Iran Interview
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I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

Strength Endure Myself Find
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The leaves were still on the trees, but were becoming dry, perched like birds ready to fly off.

Fly Bird Dry Leaves
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If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

Revolution Dripping Range Televised
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There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.

Arguments People Choose Waste
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Marriage is lovely when it works, but if it does not, should one condemn oneself ? I stopped feeling guilty for being me.

Condemn Guilty Being Lovely
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I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.

Tours Anticipations Always Start
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The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.

Heard Show Coming Compliment
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Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

Movie Weeks Next Tour
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You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.

Lower Being Person Must
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With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

Technology Good Innovation Advent
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I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

Status Basically Wasting Financing
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This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

Theory Slayed Shot Poodles
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Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.

Ecosystem Politicians Apathy Voting
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Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

Rather Play Horn Through
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Without an education, you won't have a future.

Education Future Without Have
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I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

Good Working Writer Very
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Living entirely off writing is a precarious existence and money is always short, bit with careful management and planning I found I could keep my head and those of my family, through God's grace, above water.

Water Grace God Family
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All my big heroes are literary, writers.

All.Literary Heroes Big Writers
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Writers simply have to write, and not worry so much about what people think, because public opinion is such a difficult horse to ride.

Ride Horse Difficult Public
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I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

Become Photographer Working Better
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When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

Ahead Desert Saharan Cross
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A hungry man is an angry one.
Angry Hungry Man
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

African Approve Book Bride
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When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

Decency Civility Community Compass
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In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

Black Britain Deal Exist
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Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Society Chained Nailed Floor.Weakness
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I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

Believe Both Communicator Enable
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I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.

Followers Word Okay Twitter
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I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

Feminist Liberation Toward Woman
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Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

Young Vitality Punk Rock
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As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

Book Different Money Publisher
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Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

Anything Punk Rock Qestioning
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I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

Developing Nigerian Rather Somebody
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