Taiye Selasi Quotes
The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.Taiye Selasi
Quotes to Explore
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Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
Gavin DeGraw -
I made my first movie when I was five.
Abigail Breslin -
Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
Yahya Jammeh -
Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.
Barton Gellman -
I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
Jack Osbourne -
I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
Daniel Espinosa
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
Samora Machel -
The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
Earl Weaver -
We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
Viktor Orban -
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
Saint Francis de Sales -
Obamacare was passed months before my first day at Komen.
Karen Handel -
I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.
Patrick Rafter
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I always put my boxing first.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.
Halston Sage -
Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.
Zooey Deschanel -
I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'
Laura Osnes -
Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
Warren Zevon -
The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
Idina Menzel
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I'd spend every summer in Longview on my grandfather's farm. It was a tiny little town divided by a river, which was the segregation line: that side white, this side black. And meanwhile, I lived in Compton - basically, another whole world sealed into 10 square blocks. It's interesting how insular an environment can be.
Forest Whitaker -
Why can't the world be like a summer day, when I thought that health care would be an ethical decision and wars existed only to be stopped?
Madeleine M. Kunin -
My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer.
Domenico Dolce -
It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.
Orson F. Whitney -
I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.
Parker Posey -
The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.
Taiye Selasi