Uwem Akpan Quotes
For me, as I've said many times, the story is not research. The story is how the characters relate with each other and with the environment... I try to apply my imagination to what could have happened and how a little child could have viewed and processed the event.
Uwem Akpan
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
Magnus Scheving
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
LaToya Jackson
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
T. D. Jakes
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
Baz Luhrmann
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
Johann Georg Hamann
Besides, they are our outward consciences,
And preachers to us all, admonishing
That we should drew us fairly for our end.
William Shakespeare
Stock splits have become relatively scarce in this environment, ... The reason a stock is splitting is because it's a company that's been doing well.
J. M. Roberts
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
William Godwin
I like looking at the characters. Seeing them always brings up some voice or attitude. I am much more visual, and that works so much better than having someone tell me what the character is all about.
Frank Welker
For me, as I've said many times, the story is not research. The story is how the characters relate with each other and with the environment... I try to apply my imagination to what could have happened and how a little child could have viewed and processed the event.
Uwem Akpan
