Wole Soyinka Quotes
I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don't function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I'm even ready to write.Wole Soyinka
Quotes to Explore
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
Kate Burton -
I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
Forest Whitaker -
Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
Fran Drescher -
It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
Larry Wilcox -
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
Samuel Johnson
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Before a shoot, I'll watch what I eat. During the shoot, I watch what I eat. Afterwards, the first thing I do is go have a steak and French fries.
Camila Alves -
I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.
Vince Neil Mötley Crüe -
I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
J. K. Simmons -
I'm as pure as the driven slush.
Tallulah Bankhead -
Every lover is a soldier.
Ovid -
We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America, should and will be the victims of God's divine wrath.
Malcolm X
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Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.
Larry King -
Both parents’ rights must exist primarily to assist the parents in fulfilling their responsibilities. Primarily does not mean exclusively.
Warren Farrell -
: No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).Flutter, flutter.
Larry Wall -
The first theater subscription I ever bought was the August Wilson season at Signature. I remember thinking a whole season to one playwright was a great way for a master to do a victory lap.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins -
The beauty is, while you're working on chipping, you're also working on driving. This is because the bottoms of both swings - the area around impact - are identical.
Keegan Bradley -
I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else.
Daryl Hannah
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I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it.
Douglas Adams -
I always knew I was a hit record just waiting to happen.
Oprah Winfrey -
I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.
Satyajit Ray -
I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
Bernadine Dohrn -
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke -
I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don't function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I'm even ready to write.
Wole Soyinka