Chris Abani Quotes
Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.
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I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
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Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer.
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I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.
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The universal view melts things into a blur.
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Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.
