"Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story. But things are changing and people are beginning to understand that things are going very, very well."

-- Aliko Dangote

#Real Quotes #People Quotes #Risk Quotes

“Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.”
“The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.”
“My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.”
“The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.”
“I honestly believe that sound commercialism is the best test of true value in art. People work hard for their money and if they won't part with it for your product the chances are that your product hasn't sufficient value. An artist or writer hasn't any monopoly .... If the public response to his artistry is lacking, he'd do well to spend more time analyzing what's the matter with his work, and less time figuring what's the matter with the public.”

Source : Berton Braley (1934). “Pegasus Pulls a Hack: Memoirs of a Modern Minstrel”
“What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of veracity, that they look like life rather than movie stills. I don't want them to look fabricated.”
“The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!”

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