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

• We see time’s furrows on another’s brow,And death intrench’d, preparing his assault;How few themselves in that just mirror see!

  

  Edward Young
  • Time
  • Death
  • 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

• Sometimes it's a struggle to keep up with my own photos, where the lighting is perfect, the makeup is done, and the images have been retouched. That's not what I see when I look in the mirror!

  

  Doutzen Kroes
  • Up
  • Done
  • Perfect

• 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

• When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal us. Dogs in particular are often reflections of us, and what we need them to be.

  

  Jon Katz
  • People
  • Writing
  • Live

• I had to fight, a lot of years, to be really proud of the person I see in the mirror and really love this person.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • Proud
  • Mirror

• I think that's the great thing about zombies, is, you know, going back to even 'Night of the Living Dead,' they've always been a tool for kind of holding up a mirror to us and showing us something about ourselves that we might not otherwise know.

  

  Jonathan Levine
  • Up
  • Great
  • Night

• Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen and go with it, and you will actually go through it, and it's a lot less stressful.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Change
  • Things
  • Resistance

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

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Mirror
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