Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
In particular I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it's not just hair. I mean, I'm interested in hair in sort of a very aesthetic way, just the beauty of hair, but also in a political way: what it says, what it means.
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'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.
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Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
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Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.
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Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.
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The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
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I grew up in an environment in Birmingham that was really multicultural, with black kids, Irish kids, Indian kids.
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All the networks have always been willing to have ethnic people as the third or fourth lead or the best friend to the white person. But to actually let a black family or an Asian family carry a show, that's something where there hasn't really been a precedent set in terms of a real financial gain.
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'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
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In particular I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it's not just hair. I mean, I'm interested in hair in sort of a very aesthetic way, just the beauty of hair, but also in a political way: what it says, what it means.
