Wole Soyinka Quotes
I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.Wole Soyinka
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett Marden -
I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
Abby Wambach -
Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
Barbra Streisand -
You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
Carlo Rubbia -
For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
Sam Shepard -
I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
Caitriona Balfe
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All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.
Fernando Botero -
Everything I say is true.
Laura Schlessinger -
I love cars, but I love bikes more.
Candace Kita -
My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
Ian Harding -
Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.
R. Kelly -
I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.
Walt Mossberg
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I'm a country girl at heart. I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun. I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.
Kaley Cuoco -
That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.
Ian Thorpe -
Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.
Paloma Faith -
I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.
Viggo Mortensen
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Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.
Patricia Polacco -
We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time.
John Anderson -
Little Boy Blue... he needed the money!
Andrew Dice Clay -
The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.
Nicholas Monsarrat -
Worn out places, worn out faces.
Gary Jules -
I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
Wole Soyinka