"My mother's a pretty warm, open person."

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Source : "SUNDANCE FUTURES | “Pariah” Actress Adepero Oduye". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. January 24, 2011.

Adepero Oduye

#Mother Quotes #Persons Quotes

“...the question, Why try for greatness? would seem almost tautological. If you're doing something you care that much about, and you believe in its purpose deeply enough, then it is impossible to imagine not trying to make it great. It's just a given.”
“Never underestimate your own ignorance.”
“My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.”
“Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.”
“"Don't worry too much about how spiritually poor you are_God sees that,but for you it is expected to trust in God and pray to Him as best you can,never to fall into despair and to struggle according to your strength.If you ever begin to think you are spiritually_"well off"_then you can know for sure that you aren't!True spiritual life,even on the most elementary level,is always accompanied by suffering and difficulties.Therefore you should rejoice in all your difficulties and sorrows."”
“I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.”
“Respond to your customer's dissatisfactions with precision and power.”
“My sister had health insurance; she should have been warned by her doctors that she was at risk. But she was a minority. The doctors took little interest in her as an individual, and she fell through the cracks. And died.”

Source : "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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