Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off.
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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
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What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
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On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.
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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.
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If you gauge how you're doing on whether somebody is responding vocally or not, you're up a creek. You can't do that; you kind of have to be inside of your work and play the scene. And tell the story every day. Tell the story. Tell the story. Regardless of how people are responding, I'm going to tell the story.
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Admitting that Katie had taken too much blood was on par with saying an adult human had pooped their pants or eaten their own boogers!
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
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Kindness and freedom are not "has been" values in films and in life in general. And that we can still be young and free even if we are 70.
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I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.
