Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school.Uzodinma Iweala
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
Larry Hovis -
The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
Aaron Swartz -
Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
Yahoo Serious -
I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
Rabih Alameddine -
Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
Gavin Andresen -
I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
Rakul Preet Singh -
There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.
Hal Price -
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Quentin Crisp -
I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
Oliver Reed -
That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
Oprah Winfrey
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Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.
Nate Berkus -
Parenting is tough.
Kate Middleton -
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.
Dan Chaon -
I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
Wayne Allard -
Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
Yancy Butler
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
Laura Osnes -
Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community.
Said Musa -
I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
The great image lacks shape.
Lao Tzu -
'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school.
Uzodinma Iweala