Chris Abani Quotes
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.
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You should never go on diet and must follow a healthy lifestyle.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
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I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.
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Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
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All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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You just want the highs to start once the playoffs start.
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It's so hard coming out of drama school to claim your right to be taken seriously and even get auditions.
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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I've been to Sardinia about 10 times because my wife, my daughter and I used to go every year with another family. We rented the same house each time in Villasimius in the southern part of the island, and always went to the same two beaches and same three restaurants.
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In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.
