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Me personally, I like to wear as few artificially made products as possible. That stuff affects us, one way or another.
Gbenga Akinnagbe
Me
Made
Few
Way
Possible
Wear
One-Way
Stuff
Like
Another
Affects
Artificially
Personally
Us
Products
I don't need to be someone famous or George Clooney. I don't need to be any of these people to get involved in my community or reach out to one nationally.
Gbenga Akinnagbe
People
Community
Out
Someone
Reach
Involved
George
George Clooney
Clooney
Get
Any
Famous
Need
My grandmother was a Muslim. My mother is Christian. And I don't know what I am, but I believe in God.
Gbenga Akinnagbe
God
Mother
Believe
Christian
Muslim
Know
Am
Grandmother
Even if there isn't a God, I believe in the one we've created.
Gbenga Akinnagbe
God
Believe
Created
Even
'The Wire' was a combination of great TV and great theater.
Gbenga Akinnagbe
Great
TV
Wire
Combination
Theater
Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.
Gbenga Akinnagbe
Problems
Trouble
Group
Other
Months
Locked
Locked Up
Out
Hospital
Institutions
Up
Behavioral
Psychiatric
Growing
Growing Up
Homes
Number
You want a place where you can say that this is your show that you invested in with other actors, but there's also that flexibility of being a recurring actor.
Gbenga Akinnagbe
You
Other
Say
Invested
Recurring
Also
Being
Where
Want
Place
Your
Flexibility
Show
Actor
'Home' may be the best part and best movie I've ever had. I loved it.
Gbenga Akinnagbe
Best
Home
Best Part
Had
Part
May
Movie
Loved
Ever
I did a movie called 'The Savages' with Laura Linney and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, where I played a nurse, and it showed me in a different role from what I played on 'The Wire.' It showed my range as an actor.
Gbenga Akinnagbe
Me
Nurse
Range
Laura
Wire
Role
Did
Where
Different
Movie
Actor
Played
Savages
One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace.
Goodluck Jonathan
Peace
Celebrate
Will
One Thing
Feel
Know
Continuity
Thing
Nigerians
In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.
Goodluck Jonathan
Day
Every Day
School
Power
Shoes
Meal
Every
Crossed
Only
Never
Had
Rivers
Studied
Generator
Bags
Days
Were
Walked
Miles
Early
Early Days
Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reverse that.
Goodluck Jonathan
Doctors
Developed
Developed Countries
Countries
Leave
Reverse
Want
Engineers
Medical
Nigeria
I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and credible elections. My commitment to free elections and one man, one vote remains unwavering.
Goodluck Jonathan
Man
Vote
Commitment
Free
Community
Our
One-Man
Remains
Firm
Fair
Unwavering
Elections
International
Reassure
International Community
Credible
Nigerians
All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend and protect that basic right, and - let no one be in doubt - we will.
Goodluck Jonathan
Vote
Age
Voting
Will
Free
Duty
Convictions
Doubt
Our
No-One
Protect
Based
Right
Basic
Nigerians
Defend
I'm the kind of person who always wants more. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
Hakeem Olajuwon
Life
Success
Thankful
God
Me
Obedience
Thanks
Worldly
Saw
Way
Kind
Give
Given
More
Had
Know
Blessings
Always
Than
Person
Wants
Much
Successful
Who
I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
Hakeem Olajuwon
Home
Country
Seventeen
Since
Been
Years
Now
Second
Second Home
Thirteen
When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.
Hakeem Olajuwon
Me
Culture
People
Values
Blessed
System
Feel
Look
Around
Came
Just
Africa
Where
Them
Compare
Player
Here
Basketball
Basketball Player
Position
I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.
Hakeem Olajuwon
Me
Remember
Atlanta
Steps
Over
Him
Always
Wanted
Show
Olympics
I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.
Hakeem Olajuwon
Love
Myself
Fashion
Great
Me
Joy
Own
Collection
Great Joy
My Own
Through
Much
Express
Designing
Basketball
We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.
Hugo Weaving
Alone
Lonely
Become
Way
Outsiders
Very
The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.
Hugo Weaving
Great
You
Stage
Live
Live Audience
About
Great Thing
Audience
Thing
I kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in.
Hugo Weaving
Challenge
Out
Kind
Totally
Like
Styles
How
Fit
Jumping
Different
Spaces
Figuring
I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.
Hugo Weaving
You
Phone
Difficult
Society
Thinking
Increasingly
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Because
Becomes
Got
Exist
Get
Moved
Where
Should
Keep
Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.
Hugo Weaving
You
World
Clothes
Think
Kid
Kind
Total
Some
Dressing
Something
Put
Freely
Call
Up
Just
Want
Just Kind
Which
Inhabit
Acting
Fully
Initially
Even
Imaginary
Imaginary World
Imagine
I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too.
Hugo Weaving
Work
Great
Judge
Films
Too
Guess
Pleased
Kind
About
Well
Box
Another
Box Office
How
Am
Office
Then
Really
Level
I'm 'of the world'.
Hugo Weaving
World
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