Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.
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An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.
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As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.
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There may be one or two others that we may rest and they may also be medically linked as well.
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Oasis were the last great, traditional rock 'n' roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.
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I love hosting. I've always really enjoyed making people happy, and so anytime I'm doing anything or the event is doing anything, and I look around and there are smiles on everybody's faces, I feel like I've succeeded in doing something. That's the stuff that I'm most grateful for.
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My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.
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A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.
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I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose.
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I changed into a quiet girl, with an inner life that burned with such ferocity that I had no words to express it.
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One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.
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When we came to the network, it was a very interesting time where Portlandia had just come on the air and had been very, very successful. I think people had Portlandia-sized expectations for Comedy Bang! Bang!, especially after the first episode was sampled by quite a large number of people. I remember getting the ratings after the first episode, and the network was over the moon about it. And then the second episode tanked so hard. Like, no one watched it. It was a resounding, "Hey, a bunch of people tried your show, and they all hate it!"
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As an adult, I discovered Claritin, and my whole world changed.
