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The first thing people forgo when they don’t have money is entertainment.

— Bimbo Manuel

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Hard work always pays. Shoes of iron leave prints on the sands of time.

I want to be remembered for those things that are enduring than the volume of work that I have done.

Since I cannot change a thing in that past, I have learnt to move on.

The thing about people riding range rovers and living in mansions in Ikoyi and so on, I think it's absolutely fake. There is no actor in Nigeria that would say he can buy or she can buy a Range Rover from acting fees alone.

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