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My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

Be Happy Doing Dramatic Fun
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My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.

Be Happy Doing Happy Keep
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

Airplane Almost Back Because
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My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!

Advice Give Kids Percent
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I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.

Bedtime Before Cold Cream
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When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

Being Being Scared Find Myself
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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Dream Paint Painting Then
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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Any Certainty Dream Know
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

Agent Believe Blade Body
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I feel like acting is something I've been working towards longer. And it would be great to win a Grammy, of course, but for some reason, an Oscar speaks more to me.

Acting Been Course Feel
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I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along.

Along Else Everything Everything Else
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'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school.

About Article Beasts Began
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As an adult, I discovered Claritin, and my whole world changed.
Adult Changed Discovered Whole
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D.C. is in my blood, my diction, my sensibility and style. I am, though, in love with a city that cannot fully love me back.

Am Back Blood Cannot
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For me, I am really interested in how I can stretch myself to produce things. If, in the process, others take note and recognise that, then wonderful.

Am How I Am I Can
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I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.
Book First Great Great Success
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'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.

Books Childhood Displayed Few
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The first time I ever cast a vote in my 1992 Blessed Sacrament School poll, I voted for Ross Perot because - Ross Perot.

Because Blessed Cast Ever
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What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

Head Liberation Realize Sees
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My parents have raised me and my three siblings to be aware of the privilege we have been afforded and the responsibility it brings.

Afforded Aware Been Brings
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My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.

Cardio Classes Kickboxing Mum
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I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.

Am Aware Better Better Person
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We grew up going to church, and I believe in God. I don't know that I have the ability to define what or who or how God is. You know, I think that religion kind of messes people up in that regard. That's just my own personal philosophy.

Ability Believe Church Define
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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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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

Family Full Good Means
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People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.

Crazy Eyes Funny Funny Thing
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I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

Brain Build Character Close
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

Came Day Hiding High
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I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

Arts Encouraged Had Helped
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.

Family Figure How Integral
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I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
Certainly Fan Helped Huge
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.

Am Artist Course Entirely
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

1960s Am Both Civil
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I left my home in Massachusetts after college to move to New York City to pursue my dreams of acting. I took roles for free. I waited tables. I didn't care because it was work.

Acting After Because Care
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

Broadway Few First Landing
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.

American Experiences Individuals Parents
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It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.

Always Any Around Doubts
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He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

Bit Bite He Helped
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I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

After Again Along Always
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My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.

Ability Driving Get Helped
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How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.

Absolutely Characters Describe Different
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I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

Accomplish Actually Believe Could
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I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.

Along Am Becomes Blessed
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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

Comedy Fools Girl Movie
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

Back Been Every Every Single Time
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
Collection Couple Hearts Private
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It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Experience Fear Mixed Mystery
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I love to cook for my husband and daughter. I enjoy going to the market for fresh vegetables.
Cook Daughter Enjoy Fresh
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I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.

Because Being Both Choice
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My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

Absolutely Big Countries Destroying
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