Chris Abani Quotes
Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people.

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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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I know what poverty is.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
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I see before me the gladiator lie.
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Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.
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If the broadcasters were to win on their claims, they'd outlaw the DVR.
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Baseball been berry berry good to me!
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The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.
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Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people.