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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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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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
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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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People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
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I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.
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For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span.
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There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.
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Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.
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Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing ...
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There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?
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I've just grown up a lot and started to encounter some of the big decisions of life in terms of what career I wanted to do and figuring out personal relationships and things.
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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.
