Buchi Emecheta Quotes

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

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• I like walking in Golden Gate Park.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Walking
  • Golden
  • Gate

• I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Know
  • Difference
  • Reaction

• It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Know
  • First
  • Boring

• When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Plan

• What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.

  

  Laura Moser
  • School
  • American
  • Religion

• The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Popular
  • Seems
  • Celebration

• I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Create
  • Break

• I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Wife
  • Morning

• When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Me
  • College
  • Very

• Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Inspiration
  • Consciousness
  • Self-Consciousness

• I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Sad
  • Stories
  • Anger

• We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• The only routine with me is no routine at all.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Me
  • Only
  • Routine

• It's never crowded along the extra mile.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Never
  • Crowded
  • Mile

• I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • People
  • Kids
  • Want

• I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Up
  • Like
  • Technique

• I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Time
  • Women
  • Change

• Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Think
  • Want
  • Strong

• I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

  

  Alfonso Ribeiro
  • Life
  • Words
  • Amazing

• Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created to convert government bonds into fiat money, and the people lost over half of their monetary assets to the hidden tax of inflation. In the South, printing presses accomplished the same effect, and the monetary loss was total.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Power
  • Equality

• My style is to stay on the offensive: to take risks, to recover very fast when you make a mistake, but to keep moving forward.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Style
  • Moving
  • Mistake

• As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

  

  Buchi Emecheta
  • Different
  • Money
  • Book