Chinua Achebe Quotes
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.
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'They would say,' he answered, 'that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.'
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When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!
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The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into the eighteenth century before mathematicians felt comfortable dealing with zero and with negative numbers, and why even today many people cannot accept the square root of minus-one as a genuine number.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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Two powerful women making art together is always really cool.
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
