Yvonne Orji Quotes

'First Gen' is kind of the ode to my parents and to really all immigrant children who come here with kind of a preemptive expectation placed on them, and then they get there, and they realize the American dream is bigger than, sometimes, what our parents dreamt.

Yvonne Orji

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ChildrenAmerican DreamParentsDream

The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.

Jessica Alba

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My biggest satisfaction was to learn, inexperienced as I was, that it is possible to find ways out of the deepest difficulties.

John Elkann

LearnFindSatisfactionPossibleOut

We must develop energy independence; we must Make It In America.

John Garamendi

EnergyIndependenceAmericaMust

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

John Cheever

AloneKissYouWriteWithoutLike

I always try to bring a certain masculine presence to what I do. That is part of the dynamic.

Mekhi Phifer

TryAlwaysPresenceBringDynamic

I'm a musician. I play harmonica for relaxation. A good way to relax and entertain people. An excellent way to have fun.

Stan Musial

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It's always when you think that you've lost a little of the baby weight that someone steps in grabs a handful of a now sans baby soft belly and asks the inevitable 'When are you due?'

Tori Spelling

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We're just technologists.

Travis Kalanick

Just

I want to write a book that makes people debate, and makes people think, interact with each other and exchange ideas... I write because I'm engaged in this big conversation.

Miguel Syjuco

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Whoever is playing with me, they participate in the arrangement; I learned from Craig Street to really pool the stories and the skill and the voices of everybody around you on the bandstand to build an arrangement in the moment.

Lizz Wright

MomentMeYouPoolSkillStreet

I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've seen so far.

Josh Gad

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I got my first tattoo when I was 16 years old and I went with my mom to get it done - she has a bunch too so we're tattoo buddies now.

Josh Hutcherson

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