Chinua Achebe Quotes
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
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I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.
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Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.
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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.
