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'First Gen' is kind of the ode to my parents and to really all immigrant children who come here with kind of a preemptive expectation placed on them, and then they get there, and they realize the American dream is bigger than, sometimes, what our parents dreamt.
— Yvonne Orji
Tags: dream, american-dream, parents, children

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To not have the wherewithal to give fully to a relationship bothered me.
— Yvonne Orji
Tags: bothered, give, relationship, me
I used to work in public health, and the issues were sustainability, how the funds were being delineated, and if the funds were actually helping the people we think they're helping.
— Yvonne Orji
Tags: think, people, health, work
Some people just don't subscribe to labels.
— Yvonne Orji
Tags: just, some, some-people, people
Sometimes you're just regular. Sometimes you wake up, and your breath stinks like everybody else, and you had a bad hair day.
— Yvonne Orji
Tags: bad, hair, day, you
I don't even know anyone who hasn't watched 'Sex and the City.' If you didn't, we can't be friends.
— Yvonne Orji
Tags: know, sex, city, you
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