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
Quotes to Explore
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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 want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies.
Derek Jarman
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It wasn't the intention to do something important, or to even relate about social issues. The ground is so fertile in the justice world, dealing with the death penalty and the Innocence Project, for characters that have a moral ambiguity, which we were both attracted to. It's the idea that everybody has their reasons. Whatever their actions are, whether you agree with them or not, you can understand why they're feeling that way, in terms of racism or even the death penalty.
Richard LaGravenese
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So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun.
Paul Westerberg
The Replacements
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Every week, we read about horrific tragedies resulting from children who play with firearms and accidentally shoot themselves or their family members.
Elizabeth Esty
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The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.
Stanley Kubrick
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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
