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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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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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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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.
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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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Q: Does commercial success matter to you?
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It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.
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Me and my son got pictures on the Batmobile. I'm a big kid.
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I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.
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I really don't care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.
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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.
