Teju Cole Quotes
The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.
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It will work. I am a marketing genius.
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All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.
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I'm a kid who grew up working hard.
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You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.
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The social effects which are usually enumerated do not constitute a reconstruction of society on a Christian basis, but were mainly a suppression of some of the most glaring evils in the social system of the time.
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Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.
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The protagonist in 'Winter's Bone' was a really good role for a female. She was strong; she didn't have to conform to something or be a sidekick to any man. That's part of what you're responding to; it's a woman-centric situation. Her value in the film was not reliant on any man.
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I've got too much I want to do in life.
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Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.
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I spent a long time in London on the stage, and you knew exactly what you were going to be doing. You not only knew the performance, but you also knew exactly where you would stand.
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The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.
