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.
Uwem Akpan
Quotes to Explore
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.
Daniel Berrigan
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.
Maika Monroe
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.
Walt Mossberg
If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
Manoj Bhargava
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
Ira Glass
I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
Rainbow Rowell
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.'
Malorie Blackman
The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
Irina Shayk
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.
Octavia E. Butler
I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
Ottessa Moshfegh
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.
Candis Cayne
It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
Damian Lewis
