Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

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• My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • People
  • Reality
  • Present

• I've never been a partier.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Never
  • Been

• In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Live
  • Grow
  • Old-fashioned

• It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Clever

• I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Career

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Thought

• I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Soul

• As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the education they deserve.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • Career
  • Parents

• I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Fun
  • Try
  • Have Fun

• I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Lost
  • Failure
  • Learn

• Despotism is a long crime.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Crime
  • Despotism

• I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Stop
  • Start
  • Week

• It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Creation
  • Now
  • Foot

• I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Horse

• I'm a big fan of domino masks, like Zorro, or Robin. You could put a domino mask on anything, and it becomes a superhero. You put a domino mask on a milkman, and he becomes, like, Super Milkman.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Fan
  • Superhero
  • Becomes

• Dancers are working their bodies just like a marathon runner would, and you have to eat to make it through a three-hour performance. Dancers put their bodies through incredible strain.

  

  Darcey Bussell

• To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch, their renewal of life, this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

  

  Charles Dudley Warner
  • Life
  • Plant
  • Hoe

• I think that I've had a very strange life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Think
  • Strange

• Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.

  

  Jimmy Dean

• I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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