Ozwald Boateng Quotes
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.
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I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
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Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'
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I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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A good leader must be fair.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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I would like to be a legend, everyone wants to be a legend.
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You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.
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I just want to continue to be challenged and to keep getting better and better. I don't ever want to lose that or become complacent or pulling tricks.
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I'm the only member of my family who dared to move away from Birmingham - my brothers and sister are still here, along with my mom.
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In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done.
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A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.
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I have my fashion empire to build.
