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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All I do is sit at home and watch Netflix.
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I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.
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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
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Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment.
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When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain.
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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.
