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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It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.
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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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My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.
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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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Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.
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I'm from the south side of Atlanta, College Park, and we all really care about our dress code and our apparel and our attire, so I think it's just something that started when I was growing up. Just trying to be me and up to date and being an individual at the same time.
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The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.
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My life - it's a piece of work. And my work is a piece of life.
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Do not deny God. Do not blaspheme God. Do not murder. Do not engage in incest, adultery, pederasty or bestiality. Do not steal. Do not eat of a live animal. Establish courts/legal system to ensure obedience to the law.
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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.
