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Yvonne Orji Quotes

I was bullied because I have this thick Nigerian accent.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: nigerian
Birth: December 2, 1983

Topics

Because Accent Thick Bullied

In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.

World Rich Labor Kind Taxes Trade

The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

Heart Man Brain Play Difficult Even

Universal background checks work. You keep the guns out of the hands of dangerous people. That shouldn't be partisan - that should be something we can all agree to, but it became this huge battle and, you know, really, really a challenge.

John Hickenlooper

Work Challenge People Battle Hands

There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Good Words Saying Moments Body Days

I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.

Success Fun Having Fun Loved Feel

Exclusives are bad for artists, bad for consumers, and bad for the whole industry.

Bad Industry Artists Whole Consumers

The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.

Michael Mandelbaum

World Important Oil Much Less Uses

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.

Business Captain Never Radio Out

I always wanted to be a futbol player, but I was never good enough.

Good Enough Never Always Player

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

Art Me Choose Artist Will Just

I'm a growth-is-good Democrat.

To me, characters are at the heart of great literature.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Heart Great Me Literature Characters

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