Uwem Akpan Quotes
After the phone call from The New Yorker, I walked more than a mile to church to thank God. But then I told God I would talk to Him another time and darted home.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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The two centre-backs, Rob Huth and Wes Morgan, are in many ways journeyman pros, but they have that wonderful attitude and never-say-die spirit that has culminated in them being top of the league.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Once you turn forty...the whole world is water off a duck’s back. Once you turn forty you realize that life is there to be wasted. (p. 165).
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Holiday food is rich and indulgent. Going-home-to-see-family food is richer and even more indulgent.
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My wife only has sex with me for a purpose. Last night it was to time an egg.
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If you look at the history of our company, we don't do a lot of acquisition. The reason is, we need to see that people are culturally and philosophically aligned with the way that we approach the business.
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After the phone call from The New Yorker, I walked more than a mile to church to thank God. But then I told God I would talk to Him another time and darted home.
