Wole Soyinka Quotes

Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

Wole Soyinka

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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.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Up
  • High
  • Water

• Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Country
  • Loved

• Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Hold
  • Shape
  • Our

• I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • College
  • Thought
  • Athlete

• 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.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • School
  • Why
  • Friends

• I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Purpose
  • Step

• I did some good things as a rookie.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Good
  • Good Things
  • Rookie

• 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.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Fall

• I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Life
  • Want
  • Feel

• I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

  

  Zoe Tapper
  • Work
  • Earth
  • Motherhood

• 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.'

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Worry
  • Thought
  • Step

• I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • End
  • Doing The Right Thing

• I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Band
  • Old
  • Hell

• 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.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Trying
  • Something
  • Say

• I'm now a member of a pretty small club.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Pretty
  • Small
  • Now

• Wear some mascara, give attention to your eyebrows, and also take care of your lips.

  

  Fei Fei Sun
  • Attention
  • Care
  • Lips

• 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.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Real
  • Football
  • Chance

• I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Human
  • Try
  • Lucky

• The economic reality is that, thanks to smart machines and global trade, the well-paying, middle-class jobs that were the backbone of Western democracies are vanishing.

  

  Chrystia Freeland
  • Reality
  • Smart
  • Thanks

• This whole science thing of working out if players are a little bit tired just gives you an excuse to leave them out.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Science
  • Tired
  • Leave

• Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Sometimes
  • Human
  • Writers