Wole Soyinka Quotes
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.
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I remember bringing some of my other friends to our table, and everyone at our table would look at them and ask me, 'What are you doing? Why'd you bring him?' It was annoying high school stuff that still goes on now. My high school was really bad.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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I did some good things as a rookie.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.
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I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.
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I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'
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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
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As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.
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I'm now a member of a pretty small club.
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Wear some mascara, give attention to your eyebrows, and also take care of your lips.
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Not many players would turn down a chance to play for Real Madrid and Barcelona, as they're right at the top the tree in terms of football.
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The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.
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Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
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Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are perfectionists and are typically plagued by frustration at their inability to achieve their goals.
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If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.
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I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.
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The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.
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Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
