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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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 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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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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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 love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't get that.
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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
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I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.
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The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
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There are 36 ways to tell this story. And all of them are disgusting.
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Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.
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Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.
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I can never tell a joke, I've always found it easier to just fall over.
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The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.
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Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.
