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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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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It's okay to lose. Losing teaches you something. Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting.
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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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Being a professional screenwriter is perhaps the hardest occupation. Because nothing is ever yours and, by the nature of the medium, you are never ultimately responsible for your work. It can be interesting - if you have another outlet.
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It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.
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In my early days, I sang rock stuff, but the career didn't kick until '67.
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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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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.
