Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.
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I'm very content.
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Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.
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On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
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We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet!
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We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
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I believe in giving more than 100% on the field, and I don't really worry about the result if there's great commitment on the field. That's victory for me.
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I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
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There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.
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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
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If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.
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There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that you either have to be able to handle or not. What you can't do is try to force yourself into roles that you could have played or would have played ten years earlier.
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If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there...
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For thousands of years, much of humankind has believed that only special places are infused with the sacred and that you must get away from the everyday in order to find it. Not so, everything is infused with the holy - from chairs to clothing to kitchen stoves.
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To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?
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I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.
