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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 Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
— Uzo Aduba
Tags: walk, mother, women, life

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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
— Uzo Aduba
Tags: long, time, sports, family
I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
— Uzo Aduba
Tags: picture, school, day, smile
I love physicality. I love movement very much.
— Uzo Aduba
Tags: very, much, movement, love
As for the fake teeth, they're officially retired. I haven't really found a need or want to wear them.
— Uzo Aduba
Tags: teeth, need, want, fake
My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard.
— Uzo Aduba
Tags: like, understand, new, family
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