Wole Soyinka Quotes

Pity you can't be present during my periodic fault-finding sessions with my image in the mirror!

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• I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Always
  • Mirror
  • Looking

• For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Mirror
  • Back
  • Seeing

• The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.

  

  Larry David
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Mirror

• Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Friends
  • Age
  • Past

• What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Get
  • Lessons

• I would rather talk to the mirror than to the press. There is a part of me that remains within me and the rest goes out to the public.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Rest
  • Mirror

• DK: How often does the seriousness end and the irony begin in your work? M: Many times. I have a grand and endless capacity to find myself slightly ridiculous. I'm not pretending to be some wallowing prophet, for heaven's sake. I think we all have to sit down and look in the mirror and think, What is that absurd monstrosity?

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Work
  • Heaven
  • Mirror

• One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto.From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me.The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Wall

• I wake up in the morning crying, and I'll tell you why. It's because I look at myself in the mirror, and then I say, 'It'll get better.'

  

  Ken Jeong
  • Up
  • Why
  • Morning

• Vladimir Nabokov liked to examine cruelty and the human condition. That didn't mean he was cruel; there's no evidence he kicked puppies just for the fun of it. Similarly, 'Black Mirror' likes to examine possible dystopias, but that doesn't mean the show is cynical enough to endorse them.

  

  Jeff Vandermeer
  • Fun
  • Black
  • Mirror

• I don't stress about things I can't change, so if I have a day when I don't look great, I don't look in the mirror! I try to fit in one session of Bikram yoga and one run a week and, if I can, one swim, but that's pushing it.

  

  Donna Air
  • Great
  • Mirror
  • Stress

• I definitely went through a period where I don't want to say I hated myself, but I hated what I saw in the mirror. I would try to cover it up, and it wasn't until I started doing sports - until after London 2012 - that I kind of started getting more of that confidence in my body and appreciating my body.

  

  Oksana Masters
  • Up
  • Sports
  • Confidence

• Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.

  

  David Alan Grier
  • Mirror
  • Cute

• I did a series of these soft-core horror movies called 'Mirror Mirror.' I got killed in 'em all - and each time, I came back as a different character. They were all straight-to-video.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Time
  • Different
  • Character

• It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Society

• Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.'

  

  Martin Amis
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Beginning

• I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look in the mirror and say, 'I gave it everything I had,' it was OK. But if you gave it less, that would disgrace you.

  

  Mark Harmon
  • Long
  • Effort
  • Mirror

• The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.

  

  Babe Paley
  • Me
  • Always
  • Deliberately

• No matter how long our politicians order people to sing songs of praise, no matter how many fireworks they launch into the heavens, and no matter how many foreign leaders they embrace, they cannot arouse a genuine mood of joy and celebration among the people.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Long
  • Joy

• Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Time
  • Want
  • Slow Down

• When you act for a living, you are lucky enough to get to say things you really want to say. You get lines that you look forward to, lines that jump out like a jack-in-the-box; you're thinking: 'Wait till you hear this.'

  

  Kenneth Cranham
  • Thinking
  • Jump

• Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • President
  • Trouble
  • Black Men

• Pity you can't be present during my periodic fault-finding sessions with my image in the mirror!

  

  Wole Soyinka
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