Chinua Achebe Quotes
The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.
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I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.
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Aren't we all dreamers? It's only because man dreamt of flying that we are travelling in planes. Behind all inventions, we see the dreams of people.
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People all over the world know me as an Indian artist. I could have chosen any other country and wouldn't have had to go through problems claiming my citizenship. But it is India where my heart is and has always been.
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The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.
