Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'
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Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
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The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it.
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Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
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I see flaws as a kind of beauty.
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In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!
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If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.
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I do movies I would go to see.
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I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.
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November's night is dark and drear,The dullest month of all the year.
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Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse
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Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
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I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there.
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I'm a flash in the pan: a novelty.
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When I was asked to be a part of 'The Face,' I was like, 'This is exactly what I do without cameras.' I didn't find it any different than what I usually do for young girls - giving runway tips or just explaining how the whole industry works - but now you have, like, 19 cameras on you, documenting you while you scratch your nose.
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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
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I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'
