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.Uwem Akpan
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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.
Ice T -
There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
Irvin Kershner -
Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
Ingrid Bergman -
I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
Aaron Sorkin -
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.
Harold Brodkey -
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Samuel Butler
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Music is such a part of my soul.
Victoria Justice -
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.
Caity Lotz -
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.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
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.
Harlan Coben -
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.
Kate Hudson -
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.
Gary Sinise
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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.
Harlan Coben -
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.
Carl Honore -
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.
Kate Middleton -
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
Wadada Leo Smith -
I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
Vincent Bugliosi -
Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.
Dana Goodyear
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People used to think that biological clocks were not only mysterious, they were seen almost as miracles. This is no longer the case.
Jeffrey C. Hall -
By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.
Jack Youngblood -
For a long time growing up, I thought that everything happens for a reason and it's kind of already written. But as I've grown and learned various things, I think that the most important moment is the one that you're in, and that's the only moment that matters, that you can really control. The future is unknown, and the past is history.
Christen Press -
Most of our children have access to Internet-accessible technology, yet most of us are actually not paying much attention to what they're doing online.
Lisa Madigan -
A kiss from my mother made me a painter.
Benjamin West -
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.
Uwem Akpan