Uzodinma Iweala Quotes

I think the fact that we don't really... that the world really doesn't acknowledge how bad and how detrimental colonialism was; that people don't really try to explore it, you know, in popular media and news articles; that... that it's just kind of glossed over as this thing.

Uzodinma Iweala

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 5, 1982

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PeopleWorldThinkMediaYouBad

The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did.

Jesse Eisenberg

PeopleDrawingFirstFirst Impression

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

John Lancaster Spalding

FaithRespectMindDoubtThoughtful

I've always felt that almost every part I've played has been a character part. I mean, I look at it that way. I can't help how I look or how I seem to people.

Robert Redford

CharacterPeopleHelpLookWayMean

I savor life. When you have anything that threatens life... it prods you into stepping back and really appreciating the value of life and taking from it what you can.

Sonia Sotomayor

LifeValueYouBackValue Of Life

If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.

Steve Wozniak

YouPerfectSkillsTryOthersHuman

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

Denise Richards

StoryThreeSidesTwoAlwaysFour

Evil is tolerable if purged of coarseness.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

EvilTolerablePurged

Reading is essential to human life. When the last reader dies, humanity will be at an end.

Anthony McCarten

LifeReadingEndHumanityWillLast

I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate.

Willie McCovey

ControlBetterWantCockySound

The reason I like 'Breaking Bad,' which is still probably my favorite show, is Walter White. You watch him transform, and that's so fascinating. And I think. a lot of TV shows that aren't successful, it's because the characters become stagnant.

Peter Dinklage

ThinkYouBadWhiteBecomeStagnant

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

Peter Jackson

ChildhoodKnowWantMoviesBecause

Modern media has a real tendency to focus on the divisions rather than the commonalities.

Todd Young

FocusMediaRealModernRatherThan

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