Teju Cole Quotes
Always say no pun intended to draw attention to the intended pun.
Teju Cole
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
Pat Cadigan
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
Sallust
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
Laura Mvula
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
Karl Shapiro
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
Olivia Colman
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
Tammy Duckworth
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School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
Gary Ross
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
Adam Mansbach
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As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.
Karan Johar
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
Vincent Cassel
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
Lactantius
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
Octavio Paz
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I'm talkin to you, sucka nigga you can stunt all ya wanna stuntI know you won't bust a gun, yeah punk-I'm talkin to youFuck nigga, you can hate all you wanna hateI know you a fake, make no mistake bitch, I'm talkin to you
T.I.
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It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.
Walter Kaufmann
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I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.
Kristin Hannah
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
Jack Osbourne
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Always say no pun intended to draw attention to the intended pun.
Teju Cole
