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'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 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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There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
