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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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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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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Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it`s getting worse. It's because you get older, your responsibilities are different. Now I'm taking care of children instead of being a child. It makes the world look scarier. That happens to everyone.
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It's often women who are writing leading roles for women. Most of the stuff that comes my way is not actually about women. I'm just asked to be a supporting player in a story about a man, and I, frankly, was not interested in doing that.
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I'm very claustrophobic.
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This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
