Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes

There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.

Binyavanga Wainaina

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• I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Real
  • Done

• Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Life
  • Know
  • Animal

• I have a really great show jacket from Lavalliere that's really well made, and I have a great pair of Gucci jodhpurs, which is hilarious.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Great
  • Hilarious
  • Jacket

• I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Life
  • Science
  • Look

• The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Real

• I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Different
  • Me

• I'm not very good at vacationing or relaxing or planning any of that for myself. So I'm in the habit of piggy-backing off of gigs and deciding to stay an extra day.

  

  Verite
  • Good
  • Day
  • Myself

• In maybe 1963, we had 'Collier's Encyclopedia,' and they sent us their yearly LP. I heard the Beatles talking on there. That was the first time I tried altering my voice, doing a Liverpudlian accent.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Doing

• I play baseball - 'The Show' - a lot. I'm pretty good at that. I go 'Road to the Show,' where you build your own player. I build myself when I used to play as a center fielder. Power, speed, stealing bases.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Power
  • Pretty

• The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • True
  • Brain
  • Fact

• Among the group of people waiting at the fortress was a schoolgirl in a brown and yellow uniform holding a green eiderdown quilt and, by the loop at its neck, a red hot-water bottle.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • People
  • Water
  • Waiting

• It is positive that the change in Finland means a rush in the elections and not in the streets.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Positive

• Improving the opportunities across the board is extremely important to sustain the legitimacy of wealth. If a whole horde of people, whole sections of society don't feel they have the opportunities, then the focus is going to be on those who have it and who have made it and say that is illegitimate.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • People
  • Important
  • Society

• He had not remembered her name, but he had seen her dance - had been carried away and fascinated by the supreme art that can make you forget art.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Art
  • Dance

• If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.

  

  Max Levchin
  • People
  • Game

• By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives - you can't say, think, or do this or that.

  

  Jill McCorkle
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• I like to fly under the radar.

  

  Lynsi Torres
  • Fly

• Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • Life
  • Time
  • School

• I never had trouble saying what I have to say.

  

  Brigitte Bardot

• I can tell you that my contribution based on my interpretation of the book is unchanged. The other things, in terms of doing the research and following the trail of it, were probably pretty similar to what I would have done then. I think that what makes me celebrate that it took the 10 years is the various other people and contributors that I ended up having on board.

  

  Sean Penn
  • People
  • Book
  • Research

• When a director you admire says that he wants to work with you, it's always a compliment, very good for your ego.

  

  Lea Seydoux
  • Good
  • Work
  • Ego

• He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them.

  

  Jamie Muir
  • Logic

• Confidence is sexy.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • Confidence
  • Sexy

• There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.

  

  Binyavanga Wainaina