Uwem Akpan Quotes
I believe that Jesus was both priest and poet. Imagine those powerful parables! My experience as a priest tells me it's not possible to reach the hearts of the congregants without a bit of poetry and storytelling.
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We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
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Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer their apps on its phones and tablets.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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I'm very, very blessed.
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A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
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Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.
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Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.
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Even if I play backgammon with my coach, I hate to lose. I won't talk to him for, like, an hour. So imagine how it feels when you lose at tennis. That makes me determined not to lose because I hate it so much. Even at a set down and match point, I always believe I can come back.
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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
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I believe mustard to be one of the most amazing condiments.
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There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
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I believe that Jesus was both priest and poet. Imagine those powerful parables! My experience as a priest tells me it's not possible to reach the hearts of the congregants without a bit of poetry and storytelling.
