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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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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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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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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I feel like a very lucky person. From the time I was young, I had a dream of becoming a writer. Now that dream has come true, and I am able to make my living doing something I really love.
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I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.
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I'm not afraid of having big banks.
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So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
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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.
