Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once was.
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The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
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If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
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Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist.
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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
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I'm a great jazz fan.
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I'm totally, totally into old Vegas.
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Macrame is effortless.
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I will fight hard to keep my seat in this place, but that will depend on the people who sent me here.
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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
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Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.
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To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once was.
