Catherine Ndereba (Catherine Nyambura Ndereba) Quotes
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Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.
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I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.
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Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
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The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
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The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.
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Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests.
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As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.
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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
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kk kk ggg ddd wowo well uh, well, no, well sa-ay. I I I know know know I I can but it's ha ha ha hard.
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I like to learn things slow I like learning alot I like to get it all again and in the end You know you get what you got
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The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.
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El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.
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If it wasn't for the stars, we would not be here.
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On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.
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Women are truly, truly awesome.
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I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.
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I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
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As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.
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I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become.
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I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.
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If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.
