Babatunde Adebimpe Quotes
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
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I'm an exercise and yoga junkie and I feel good.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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Normally when I look at stuff, I try to look at the good things. When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those.
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I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
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One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
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In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.
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If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.
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American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
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My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
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My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'
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The Democratic Party has gotten narrower and it's gotten smaller and it's fundamentally wrong on all the key questions involving the economic future of this country and our hopes of prosperity. And many Americans are beginning to realize that.
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I always try to mix it up with each book - changing tone, changing style keeps the work very vital for me.
Colson Whitehead -
But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.
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Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.
