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.
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Related I keep my head straight by having the right people around me, from my friends and family to my manag... JESS GLYNNE teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li... MY TEACHER I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to m... MICHELANGELO I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by... MICHELANGELO The people who are bus drivers and custodians live in the district. They're my friends and they're m... JEFFREY GRODI I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are... BENIGNO AQUINO III I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it. NAOMI CAMPBELL I choose to be me, for now, and forever. I will live my life for me and by me. This is my life and I... AVINA CELESTE Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did... NEIL GAIMAN My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared. HAILEE STEINFELD I am thankful to my teachers who taught me how to read. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one... MARIE ANTOINETTE In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in m... ISABEL ALLENDE I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of... CAITLYN JENNER I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My famil... A. R. RAHMAN My biggest concern was that I didn't want my squad to be distracted so that they could continue c... KRISTI YAMAOKA I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studi... DANICA MCKELLAR It's funny, my kids and I live together, and I have a lot of actor friends. So my kids think eve... DALLAS ROBERTS My mother taught me how to read QURAN and QURAN taught me how to live, believe me or not i fail to f... ASIF ATAHI I would love to make my entire career as the guy who did not get cheered. Of course, I'm still g... DOLPH ZIGGLER I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's ... NAOMI CAMPBELL I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home... JACK MA I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so smal... HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so smal... HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small ... HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK The opportunity was to go to a young, up-and-coming team, ... It's always nice to come back and say ... CORY STILLMAN People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their fr... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT abundant feeling of your presence in front of Allah is enjoy full solitude state where you are in bo... M.I.SHAIKH MY SELF It's raining spiders, seriously. Maybe that's a bad sign. MY MORNING JACKET At Dawn/Tennessee Fire Demos MY MORNING JACKET You go up there and it's just this amazing place on top of a mountain, MY MORNING JACKET I couldn't live like that with my friends worshipping money. I couldn't live like that. People wante... BRIAN WELCH I try to acknowledge both the sacred and the silly in my work. That goes for the live show as well. ... JASON MRAZ I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare ... NAT WOLFF My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And ... DWYANE WADE I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to b... JACKI WEAVER Besides, it's all about the team. If you get too caught up in your own individual awards, it takes a... LINDSAY WHALEN My family and high school friends were the only people who were with me every step of the way throug... JENNA MORASCA I'm always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book ta... SEANAN MCGUIRE I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to b... JACKI WEAVER I don't like being victimized by a machine or by other people's demands on my time. I become... JOSHUA COHEN People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog,... HEATHER ARMSTRONG The bracelet says 'Fear Nothing.' It was given to me by my friends, and it was made for me a... JOSEPH J. LHOTA A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of p... RON CARPENTER JR. My friends hated going out with me because people think they can grab you and talk to you how they w... SEAN MAGUIRE After I got my gold medal, I thought, 'This isn't just me. It belongs to my team, my friends... ALEX MORGAN I'm not one of those actors who gets so taken by a role that I can't live my life. I'm t... BILLY PORTER My off-the-field heroes, the people who gave me the values to live by and who inspired me with their... ALLAN RAY According to the fortune-cookie logic most people live by, the best things in life are free. That's ... JOSH LIEB Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arr... PETER HIGGS For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't ha... DAN COLEN I came here for my own races. They asked me to do the team pursuit. It's not really my thing but for... CHAD HEDRICK When I first started in the music business, I became estranged from my family and friends. Now I can... CHERYL JAMES Some of the tributes that have affected me the most have come from my 'fans' - friends - men... RUDOLPH VALENTINO As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my broth... BILL COSBY My mum taught me that bodies are bodies, and they come in all shapes and sizes - we should be free a... ELIZA DOOLITTLE 'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over i... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I live alone," Knud said, "and I work alone, but I am never truly alone. I do my ancestor's work. I ... MAUREEN JOHNSON I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head. KURT COBAIN I adore clothes - they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to l... ANNE ROBINSON That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I ... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN It's definitely a great time to be coming out here and hitting all my free throws. Last year when we... LEWIS WITCHER People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no... GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ Let me live in my house by the side of the road,
Where the race of men go by;
They are good, t... SAM WALTER FOSS I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask a... AYN RAND I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask ano... AYN RAND Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the ent... CHRISTIAN LACROIX Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me 'Duck.' DONALD DUNN Melanie is the gentlest of dreams and a part of my dreaming. And if the war had not come I would hav... MARGARET MITCHELL Although I have a lot of close female friends in my life, my number one is still my mom. Without her... SHEMAR MOORE It doesn't bother me. I just want to be a team player. Walker is the senior and Dillard is doing gre... SUPO SANNI My look is pretty low maintenance, I have a great team around me for hair and make-up, and they have... ALEXA CHUNG I was taught by my parents that people who are loud don't have anything to say. I've found i... BILL DRAYTON I just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any mea... EMMA STONE Don’t judge me by my past. I don’t live there anymore. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE It broke my heart. I live my life by the value system that you treat others the way you want to be t... MANDISA HUNDLEY I live on a ranch in Texas and do my own thing. And I don't care what anyone has to say about it... KELLY CLARKSON The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want... N. T. WRIGHT I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious! STEVEN WRIGHT I installed a skylight in my apartment... The people who live above me are furious! STEPHEN WRIGHT My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel... GALE HAROLD Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib. WOODY ALLEN I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute. PINK It was an idea, I thought, that could almost be written as a helping tool. People seemed to like the... FLORENCE SEIDELMAN I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin. NORMA SHEARER I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe,... CARRIE UNDERWOOD I've been struggling so long with my career that I haven't been in a position to invite a wo... COLIN EGGLESFIELD My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs. BECKY G I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, b... LEONARD COHEN I'm so thankful for my family and friends - they're really supportive. Everyone I work with ... LAURA MARANO People ask me if I live each day like it's my last, and I don't. I live each day like it'... KRIS CARR I wasn't going to even try out for the basketball team my junior season at Kinston. Coach Stackhouse... HERBERT HILL I wasn't going to even try out for the basketball team my junior season at Kinston, ... Coach Stackh... HERBERT HILL One day, I'll disappear and hide in a corner of Britain. I'll own a bakery in a village, liv... PAUL HOLLYWOOD You know, we're a tight family. I live right down the street from my folks. I talk to my mother ... EMILIO ESTEVEZ I am a goofy person, really. That's where my energy goes, that's how I live my life. The goo... DEVON BOSTICK I live for the dream that my children will be born free. That they will be what they like. That they... PIERCE BROWN My personal aesthetic is to be affected directly by everything about what you're seeing... I don... JEFF BUCKLEY
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