Wole Soyinka Quotes
I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard against it. If I have difficulties in the writing, I just go and do other things. I don't feel a compulsion to write.Wole Soyinka
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
Daniel Craig -
Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
Naeem Khan -
I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
Oscar Niemeyer -
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
W. H. Auden -
Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can operate from a position of ignorance and make up my own rules instead of being bound by customs and practice.
Irvine Welsh -
There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.
Mac Davis
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If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.
Kangana Ranaut -
We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
Mahmoud Abbas -
The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity...then you are going to be surprised.-1985
Nancy Pelosi -
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.
Elbert Hubbard -
The 'control mechanism' view of culture begins with the assumption that human thought is basically both social and public - that its natural habitat is the house yard, the market place, and the town square.
Clifford Geertz -
To us, 'The Amazing Race' takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?
Burnie Burns
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I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be a part of.
Ashleigh Murray -
I have done some wonderful television, but you know, there's not as much exceptional material as there is in the theatre. So I do a lot of theatre, but really, as with most actors, I just love going from one to another. It's stimulating, it's diverting, it's a different way of life, and you know, I dearly like a good mix.
Lindsay Duncan -
Will there be a political backlash against British Prime Minister Theresa May, whose ruling Conservative Party is traditionally seen as 'stronger' on terrorism than its main rival, the Labour Party?
Peter Bergen -
As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.
Avery Brundage -
To me, I'm going out there focusing on competing, not worrying about cardio or anything like that.
Colin Kaepernick -
I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took big money for nostalgia and became like an oldies act.
David Cassidy
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It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.
Kelsea Ballerini -
Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.
John Travolta -
People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.
Errol Morris -
Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.
Ricky Williams -
I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.
A.M. Homes -
I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard against it. If I have difficulties in the writing, I just go and do other things. I don't feel a compulsion to write.
Wole Soyinka