Nalo Hopkinson Quotes
Come in peace to my home, Tan-Tan. And when you go, go in friendship.
Nalo Hopkinson
Quotes to Explore
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
Dan Deacon
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
Kapil Dev
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
Queen Latifah
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
B. F. Skinner
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
Ted Naifeh
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
Hanya Yanagihara
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
Kate Winslet
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
Harrison Ford
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Mao Zedong
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin
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I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
Madhur Bhandarkar
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Abbie Hoffman
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I take my work seriously.
Daniel Craig
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
Natan Sharansky
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Wrestling was the first time I thought, 'My leg is the thing that functions in this way to do this move, to get from A to B.' Instead of, like, 'My body's purpose is to suck it in so the male showrunner thinks it's attractive.'
Betty Gilpin
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When it comes to those who are accused and their right to defend themselves, it is perfectly reasonable to expect relevant evidence to be made public, and I am in favour of open justice.
David Blunkett
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Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.
Simone de Beauvoir
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Khalil Gibran
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Come in peace to my home, Tan-Tan. And when you go, go in friendship.
Nalo Hopkinson
