Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first.
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Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.
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My kids speak of both subtle slights and blatant racism. It's a narrative I never imagined for them.
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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
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The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.
