Teju Cole Quotes
What's interesting about Twitter is the unmediatedness of it, the directness of it. I'm on a train somewhere in New York and I send out a tweet. Somebody sitting at dinner in Bombay checks their phone and they see it.
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The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
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Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.
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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
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It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.
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To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
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I don't know that happy people are interesting to write about - or to read about.
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The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans.
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When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.
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I want to work on interesting parts that I can believe in.
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I train and prepare for every contest the same so I can compete to the best of my abilities.
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... Satan is made interesting. This has been the charge of a thousand orthodox and even heterodox writers against Milton.
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You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.
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Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far as blather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.
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I want to do lots of exciting, varied, interesting things. That's what I want to do.
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In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa.
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Life is short. Ricky and I realize how lucky we were. We want to be together all the time.
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Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.
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I like seeing my physical progress through a volume, particularly if it's a big book.
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What's interesting about Twitter is the unmediatedness of it, the directness of it. I'm on a train somewhere in New York and I send out a tweet. Somebody sitting at dinner in Bombay checks their phone and they see it.
