Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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The cost of money rises dramatically if you can't afford to keep it in a bank.
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Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.
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I want to do something that is unique, that has its own legs. But it's very hard because if you start veering off, if you get too crazy, then people won't know what to make of it. I want to please my audience, too. I want people to like what I do.
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Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.
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We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations and we are ending a war not with a final battle but with a final march toward home. This is an extraordinary achievement
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Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
