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.
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I've never been a partier.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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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.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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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.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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Most website developers say an aggregator website, such as what healthcare.gov is, could be built easily for a half a million dollars. They have spent a half a billion dollars.
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I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt
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We like to talk about pioneering Mars rather than just exploring Mars, because once we get to Mars, we will set up some sort of permanent presence.
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I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.
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The demand for group rights will widen in the society, because social life increasingly becomes organized on a group basis.
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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.
