Chinua Achebe Quotes

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.

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• As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

  

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• Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
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• People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.

  

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• People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.

  

  Gayle Forman
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• I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
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• It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.

  

  Ed Smith
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• It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.

  

  Dan Brown
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• People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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• And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.

  

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  • People
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• In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

  

  Barbara Jordan
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• I think, if you create the right economic framework in terms of government policy, that Saskatchewan can continue to succeed and grow. Instead of having people migrate from Saskatchewan, they will be migrating to Saskatchewan.

  

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• I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • People
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• The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
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• There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

  

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• I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

  

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• I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling.

  

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  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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• You leave the States, and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you.

  

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• Yes, I'm happy with Alan Ball's production of my novels.

  

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• I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.

  

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• Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • People
  • Great
  • Literature