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I feel like it's not Africans who are afraid of China's rise in Africa. It's the West that's afraid of China's rise in Africa.

Afraid Africa African China
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There are some people who will tell you oil is the greatest thing that ever happened to Nigeria. And there are other people who will tell you it's the worst thing that ever happened.

Ever Greatest Greatest Thing Happened
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It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.

How I Can Impact Individual
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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.

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Everybody has an equal right to be on this earth and to be happy on this earth and to achieve on this earth. That's kind of the way that I would like to try and go about living.

About Achieve Be Happy Earth
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There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.

Books Made Over Puzzle
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There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Always Being Certain Peace
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I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

About Comfort Drop Get
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In performance, you don't always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.
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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 might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.

Confident Dead Fall Happen
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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

About African America Away
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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 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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I dream in color, and I have visions of feelings and energies that I would love to feel.
Color Dream Energies Feel
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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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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.

Chekhov Hardest I Love Love
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

About Awhile Event Happen
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

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The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

Fact Like Only Out
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And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.

Always Even Flirt Good
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I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

Accent Latin Mean Mexican
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I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.
Art Borrow Everything Except
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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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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Longer Problems Smart Stay
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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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Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Daily Deep Exists Knows
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Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

About Along Beautiful Beautiful Women
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Girl Relativity Second Courting
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

Believe Discouraged Important Never
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Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.

Every Know Many More
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It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

About Beauty Beholder Dared
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One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

Disgrace Good Government Key
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It is time to show the whole world that America is back - bigger and better and stronger than ever before.

Show Time Whole Stronger
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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.

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I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

Children Everybody Just Marriage
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Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

Walk Winner Being Enough
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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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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

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Every day, I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across this nation that have been neglected, ignored, and abandoned. I have visited the laid-off factory workers and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of our country.

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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

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Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Listen Matter Second Best
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The point is that you can't be too greedy.

Greedy Point Too You
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I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

Focusing Fun Future Learn
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I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.

Daughter Get Great I Think
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I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

Actually Firing Generation Imagined
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I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.

Afford Care Closing Country
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People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.

Time Cards Deal Rid
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