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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People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.
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Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?
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A major figure of Croatia and the Balkans has disappeared. We have to hope that the elections that will now take place in Croatia ... will help Croatia in the direction of a democratic country.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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How shall I ever tell Aunt Shaw?' she whispered, after some time of delicious silence. 'Let me speak to her.' 'Oh, no! I owe it to her, - but what will she say?' 'I can guess. Her first exclamation will be, "That man!" ' 'Hush!' said Margaret, 'or I shall try and show you your mother's indignant tones as she says, "That woman!"
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Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
