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 -
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 -
If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.
Kangana Ranaut
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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 -
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 -
As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.
Avery Brundage
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To me, I'm going out there focusing on competing, not worrying about cardio or anything like that.
Colin Kaepernick -
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 -
We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books.
Alexandra Adornetto -
These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.
Aulis Sallinen -
I took a cabbie to taxi court once. Years ago, this guy didn't want to take me to Brooklyn. Just refused. I explained that I would absolutely take him to Taxi Court because, see, I'm an actor and have pretty much nothing but free time.
Chris Eigeman -
If I don't get hits, I don't get hits, but I'm trying to get hits.
Freddie Freeman
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
R. Kelly -
The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.
Jack White The White Stripes -
I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
Barry Levinson -
Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.
Eric Reed Boucher -
My basic notion regarding the matter of historical recognition is basically, it's a matter that should be left to the good hands of historians and experts.
Shinzo Abe -
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