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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Photography has always been capable of manipulation.
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We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
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When my phone pops up with Dierks Bentley, I'm like, 'Oh my gosh!! Okay, wait. He's supposed to be, like, my friend. I'm supposed to be cool.'
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There is still a wildness inside people that we've spent millennia trying to tame.
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If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.
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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.
