Youssou N'Dour Quotes
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.
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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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The fruit that you eat will never taste as beautiful as the fruit that I ate during the turmoil of war. You will never cherish it as much as I do.
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I don't need any nicknames.
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People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.
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It is not lust that disunites, dissolves and annihilates. It is rather the mesmerizing complications of sentimentality, artificial jealousies, words that inebriate and deceive, the rhetoric of parting and eternal fidelities, literary nostalgia – all the histrionics of love.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
