Buchi Emecheta Quotes
I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z.
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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
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My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
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It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.
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The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
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I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.
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When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you're playing, really.
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Ray Harryhausen's 'Sinbad' picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years old when it came out, and it changed my life forever. I had nightmares about dragons and stuff for years - and loved it!
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It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.
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Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
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I write... for laymen and scientists, because the reader who is interested in any activity which needs thought and judgement is... a person to whom science can be made to speak, It is not he who is deaf, but the specialists who have been dumb-the specialists in the arts as well as in the sciences.
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'I didn’t want to scare you. We don’t want to scare anyone.''No? Well, sometimes it’s a good thing to scare people. Sometimes fear is all that will keep them from doing stupid things.'
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A real collector does not sell.
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Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.
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When I create a sports costume, I remember that it must not look - how do you say? - 'bedraggled.'
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I always think in life passion supersedes everything.
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I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.
