Sophie Okonedo Quotes

As a child, I certainly wanted to have hair that I could grow long and flip around. I no longer want that. My own hair that I have day to day is a fuzzy afro. And that's who I am.

Sophie Okonedo

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This is the great crisis in football now. It's not just Rangers; it's a lot of clubs. Big clubs always create more debt despite the huge income they have. It's almost an achievement, isn't it? They make so much money, and yet, still, their debts rise and rise and rise. How does that happen? It's absurd.

Johan Cruyff

GreatMoneyFootballAchievementNow

I started drawing when I was about 2, mostly pictures of my mother and my sister. When I got into school, instead of taking the notes that I should have been taking, I was drawing in all of my notebooks. It was an artwork thing for me at first.

Megan Fox

MotherSchoolMeSisterDrawing

If something good happens to you, and no one knows it, did it really happen? Moreover, if you don't publicize your accomplishments and good fortune, are you essentially saying you don't care about them?

Meghan Daum

GoodSayingCareYouGood Fortune

I'm never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books.

Jeff Lemire

WorkCareToo MuchNeverBooksMuch

I'm such a kid at heart.

Amy Winehouse

HeartKid

I really am not a material girl.

Stella Maxwell

GirlMaterialReallyAm

When you get released from the NFL it's not a pleasant experience and I may have sulked for about two or three years. Then I was like, 'You know what? It's time to get back on the wagon.' I have nothing to be ashamed of.

Stephen Baker

TimeExperienceYouBackKnowThree

Each job I had wasn't necessarily the perfect job, but I always talk to young women about how you really have to take certain things from each job and learn from that and then move on to something you really want to do.

Tory Burch

WomenJobLearnYouPerfectYoung

When you feel like a musician you listen to is like you, then they don't feel so far away, and whatever you want to get to isn't so far away.

Little Simz

FeelYouFar AwayWantListenGet

I've always been searching. What am I going to do with all this - searching for that place where I could be me.

Desiree Rogers

MePlaceSearchingAlwaysGoingAm

The 20th century was all about hierarchies: if you want to create something, if you want to start a country, create a product, whatever it is. Your goal is to create a highly efficient hierarchical model, scale it, because that's what the competition's doing.

Chris Fussell

CompetitionStartDoingYouGoal

I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people.

Bruce Dickinson

PeopleWorldYouFindPhonePerson

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