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My goal was to tell a dialogue between high fashion and streetwear. So, the name Off-White, in my mind, is between black and white. So, that middle ground is a mixture between both genres of fashion.

Between Black Black And White Both
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I'd do anything at the right time, and I would also do things at the wrong time if they felt right.

Also Anything Felt Right
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I always joke that, at any given time, I'm supposed to be at two other places.
Always Any Any Given Time Given
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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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With age 30 comes a little more responsibility with a lot of life to live.

Little Life Responsibility Lot
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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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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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While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.

While The Majority My
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America is haunted by an apparition steeped in slavery, and I wanted to remind everyone that, 'Yo, we've got to handle this.'

America Haunted Apparition Steeped
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Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.

Always Here High HighSchool
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I myself have been scrutinized by militaries police, but I know officers who actually handle themselves in a certain way that makes me feel safe.

I Myself Have Been
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But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

Associated Away Being Carried
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You love who you love. I happen to just love a lot of women.

You Love Happen Just
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Ever since the decision of Robin Thicke and Pharrell, we believe that it was important to make sure that we are safe. When that Robin Thicke verdict came out, we realized that the game had changed in music.

Ever Since Decision Robin
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I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.
First IThink Me Succeed
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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

Abject Acting Age Environment
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The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame.

Entitlement Feed Feeds Power
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I suffered from low self-esteem for much of my life. And now to feel like maybe something that I'm projecting or saying could mean something to someone means a lot to me.

Could Feel Life Like
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I feel that confidence in women - especially young girls of color - but women, in general, is so important. It is so important for us to arm ourselves and become powerful at a very young age.

Age Arm Become Color
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I have been down and out, living in Brooklyn, no money even for a subway, no food whatsoever. Like, I remember just sitting in my room all day - even my television wasn't working!

All Day Been Brooklyn Day
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We all have different narratives; all of our narratives are at different stages of development.

Development Different Different Stages Narratives
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I played several maids in my career. I was tired of the maid after 'Far From Heaven.' I said, no more maids. Until I realized how difficult it was to get a role other than a maid, sometimes, in Hollywood, and sometimes you have to choose your battles, for lack of a better term.

After Battles Better Career
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I think many women are successful in their professional lives - they are making the money and all that - but in their personal lives are a complete mess, because they haven't paid any attention to it, because they spent all of their time being successful.

Any Attention Because Being
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The reason I became an actress is because I wanted my acting to reflect life as it is. I want to put truth on the screen. I want real women to see real women on the screen.

Acting Actress Became Because
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I would love to do really great work and for women who are marginalised to see me as an inspiration.

Great Great Work Inspiration Love
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