Teju Cole Quotes
There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those things that best help us confront ambiguity: music, painting, film, and so on.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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I am pretty self-indulgent.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
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Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.
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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.
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I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
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This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.
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I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.
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There's no smoke without mud being flung around.
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There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those things that best help us confront ambiguity: music, painting, film, and so on.
