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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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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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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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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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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The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
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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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I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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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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Saddam Hussein was a bad guy. Right? He was a bad guy, really bad guy. But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didn't read them the rights - they didn't talk, they were a terrorist, it was over. Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism. You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It's like Harvard. Okay?
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The best education in film is to make one
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the kinds of things that human beings go through. I love to see spontaneity and 'inevitability.' How it gets there is going to shock the hell out of me, but it will get there somehow.
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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.
