Uzo Aduba Quotes

• If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.

  Uzo Aduba

  Tchaikovsky, Dostoyevsky, Ifs

  "Why Uzo Aduba Wouldn’t Change Her Nigerian Name For Acting headshot" by Jessica Dickerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2014.

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• I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring.

  Uzo Aduba

  Inspirational, Change, Being Yourself

  "2014 Women Who Dare: Uzo Aduba". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 12, 2014.

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• Ive heard of nothing coming from nothing, but Ive never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.

  Uzo Aduba

  Hard Work, Heard, Absolutely Nothing

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• I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something and then when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

  Uzo Aduba

  Thinking, Space, People

  "'Orange Is The New Black' star Uzo Aduba talks Crazy Eyes and Suzanne". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. November 27, 2013.

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• Faith is a big thing we explore.

  Uzo Aduba

  Bigs, Big Things

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

  Uzo Aduba

  Writing, People, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.

  Uzo Aduba

  Character, Voice, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Womens Singles tennis champion in college.

  Uzo Aduba

  Mother, Fate, College

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• I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

  Uzo Aduba

  Senior, School, Years

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• I love De la Renta. I love CoSTUME National; I think they're just incredible. And I love Marc Jacobs, too - they're also great, just a great brand.

  Uzo Aduba

  Thinking, Costumes, Incredibles

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• In performance, you dont always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.

  Uzo Aduba

  Family Bond, Grows, Feels

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• I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose BU because they had both a good track program and an arts program.

  Uzo Aduba

  Art, School, Boston

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• I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

  Uzo Aduba

  Father, Home, America

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