Chinua Achebe Quotes
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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Music is my release.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.
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I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.
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Honor is the reward of virtue.
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The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
