Paul Kagame Quotes
Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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I love the Spider-Man story. I watched the cartoon on TV when I was a kid, and my brother wore his Spider-Man pyjamas everywhere.
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I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.
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When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.
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I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.
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A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.
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As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.
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Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end.
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What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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I experienced a lot of spiritual growth when I started traveling to Europe and playing basketball. I saw that just because I was away from home didn't mean Jesus wasn't with me. He is everywhere and you can see signs of Him in the most remote places in the world through people who don't even speak your language. Jesus is universal.
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Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.
