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

• First, I thought Twitter was some kind of hybrid car being developed by Government Motors. Then I thought it was a new bite-size snack combining what's best of the Frito and the Cheeto. Then I found out it was me. On a laptop. At the U.S. Open. Having fun.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Fun
  • Best
  • Car

• 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

• One person's going to win, and everybody else is going to not win. So let's not feel like we're losers. Let's utilize the cultural opportunities, get to know the other players on the other team, look around you, enjoy your world series.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • World
  • Team
  • Win

• 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

• The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Great
  • Love
  • Way

• 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

• The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Character
  • Feel
  • Sympathy

• 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

• The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Up
  • World
  • Children

• Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Engineering
  • Software
  • Mature

• I didn't want to go get a job or get a degree in business or marketing, or whatever all my friends were getting degrees in.

  

  James Marsden
  • Business
  • Job
  • Friends

• Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army.

  

  Sadao Araki
  • Giving
  • Army
  • Japanese

• 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