Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
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No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.
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I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.
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If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard as writing a game, though. If you discount the purely visual pop-up parts, a book is made almost entirely of words. As a novelist, you just need to think of a few decent strings of words and then fill the other 98% of the book with more or less random descriptions of things and exclamation points.
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Once you start to look at the gospels one by one, you realize that followers of Jesus were trying to understand what had happened after he was arrested and killed. They knew Judas had handed him over to the people who arrested him.
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I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.
