Teju Cole Quotes
Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if you write a good, clean line of English, you can get under a reader's skin. The reader won't even know why, but there you are. Didion, Berger, the many others I mentioned above, and many, many poets I haven't mentioned. Writers of this calibre are the moving targets the rest of us are always chasing.
Quotes to Explore
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.
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The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.
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Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.
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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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I was always drawn to the self-destructive kind of way. I thought there was something beautiful about it; I don't know why.
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It's pretty cool to see, like, from town to town, how different the crowds are.
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It's a long road to the Derby, but I think he's got the capabilities to do it, ... He's never done anything that would make us second guess him, and hopefully we can keep on going.
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Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if you write a good, clean line of English, you can get under a reader's skin. The reader won't even know why, but there you are. Didion, Berger, the many others I mentioned above, and many, many poets I haven't mentioned. Writers of this calibre are the moving targets the rest of us are always chasing.
