Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes
I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.
Binyavanga Wainaina
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
Karin Slaughter
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
W. H. Davies
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
S. J. Rozan
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You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
Dan Marino
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There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.
Ted Naifeh
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
Rachel Dratch
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
Earl King
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When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal us. Dogs in particular are often reflections of us, and what we need them to be.
Jon Katz
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'How strange,' continued the king, with some asperity; 'the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.''
Alexandre Dumas
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They're making a joke of our universe
Jim Morrison
The Doors
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Women have it better in tennis than any other sport, but you shouldn't push them to play more than they're capable of playing.
John McEnroe
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I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.
Binyavanga Wainaina