Ngugi wa Thiong'o Quotes
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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I always believe that people can learn a broader skill set. You need good technology and solving a big problem. I always think that, at it's core, it's solving a problem; you're not building technology for the sake of technology.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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There is no truly global justice.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!
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Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.
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As a kid, my dad would take me to see indie films when I would visit him in New York. Films that I just wouldn't see growing up in the Bay Area.
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I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
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My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.
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I always tell my students to write the story all the way through, not to play with the language and fall in love with sentences that you then have to cut. I actually find that really difficult to do; there's something so demoralizing about looking at a pile of not very great sentences. As I ease into writing every morning, I tweak a sentence and then tweak a paragraph.
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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My job is to get the very best people we can.
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We have to fight twice as hard, three times as hard - not only as conservatives, but frankly, as women - to have our voices heard.
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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
