Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (Jidenna) Quotes
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
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I was amazed to realize that for many Westerners, Scheherezade was considered a lovely but simple-minded entertainer, someone who relates innocuous tales and dresses fabulously. In our part of the world, Scheherezade is perceived as a courageous heroine and is one of our rare female mythological figures.
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My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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He who is contented is rich.
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To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
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Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.
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It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.
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You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue personal projects on company time, to use slowness to unlock your creativity. Anyone can do it. Start by clearing space in your schedule for rest, daydreaming and serendipity. Take breaks away from your desk, especially when you get stuck on a problem.
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Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.
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Wonder is not a disease. Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.
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Only a child had its place on the cross, and that was enough for me to paint his Crucifixions, earlier.. ..in the exact sense there was no cross but a blue child in the air. The cross interested me less.
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You've got to live and die by your decisions.
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By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.
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This is ludicrous. Seven- and eight-year-olds valiantly trying to cover the same acreage as those grown-up chaps in the Premier League is absurd. To add to the lunacy, a little goalkeeper, barely out of nappies, has to stand between posts that are eight strides apart - adult strides - and under a crossbar more than twice his height.
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In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
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She's not even referred to until her husband's death in 1903. And even then it's only as 'Mrs. William Dewey.
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Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.
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I think hard-core capitalism tends to commercialize everything.
