Uwem Akpan Quotes
I'm happy if my book makes you want to kiss your family... if we can reconcile with each other no matter where we are on the globe.
Uwem Akpan
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
Nat Wolff
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
Taylour Paige
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
Patrice Leconte
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
M. Stanton Evans
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
Calamity Jane
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.
Keith Jarrett
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Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. ‘But it won’t - that’s the devil,’ he added in the same undertone.
Virginia Woolf
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When I admitted I needed to grow old as a woman, it was a relief.
Candis Cayne
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
Edgar Degas
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In the midst of the awesomeness, a touch comes, and you know it is the right hand of Jesus Christ. You know it is not the hand of restraint, correction, nor chastisement, but the right hand of the Everlasting Father. Whenever His hand is laid upon you, it gives inexpressible peace and comfort, and the sense that "underneath are the everlasting arms," (Deuteronomy 33:27) full of support, provision, comfort and strength.
Oswald Chambers
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I'm happy if my book makes you want to kiss your family... if we can reconcile with each other no matter where we are on the globe.
Uwem Akpan
