Chinua Achebe Quotes
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.Chinua Achebe
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
J. A. Jance -
We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
Ingrid Betancourt -
Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
Lara Giddings -
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot -
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.
Calvin Harris
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I don't know the right way to retire.
Barry Sanders -
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
Harlan Coben -
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
Barack Obama -
Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
Gary Bauer -
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
Salman Rushdie
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
Dan Aykroyd -
Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
Camille Paglia -
The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
Samantha Morton -
In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
Irrfan Khan -
I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor Hugo -
If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.
Jack Nicklaus -
I think there must be some other life forms, even if they're microscopic.
Liam Neeson -
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
Patrick Stewart -
I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.
Marvin Hamlisch -
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
Chinua Achebe