Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
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I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.
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A lot of times in comedy, and also in podcasting and television, there are different kinds of voices that can be celebrated. So you can have 'Insecure' exist, you can have a '2 Dope Queens' exist, you can have 'The Mindy Project' exist - very distinct, funny voices from women and from people of color.
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We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
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Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.
