Chris Abani Quotes
I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.Chris Abani
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Walter Benjamin -
I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
Vicki Lawrence -
It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
Kate Smith -
Creating things sometimes is difficult.
Warren Littlefield -
I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
Abbi Jacobson
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
Barry Hannah -
Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
W. D. Richter -
Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
Jack Bowman -
A lot happens in 20 years.
Pat Morita -
I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
Samuel Larsen -
I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
Wang Jianlin -
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
Lady Gaga -
Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
Sam Graves -
I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
Sam Heughan -
We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
Ted Danson -
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Karl Marx
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
Barry White -
If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.
Brian Ferneyhough -
Well, that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankee win.
Phil Rizzuto -
I take the bull by the horns and make a plan and go for it.
Kim Hawthorne -
There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
Maurice Sendak -
I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.
Chris Abani