Wole Soyinka Quotes

For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be finished, but we all long, I think, to see the plays fleshed out on stage and I'm exactly like that. Yes, I'm not satisfied until I actually see it on stage.

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• Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Live
  • School

• Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.

  

  Kate Mara
  • World
  • Dream
  • Feeling

• If we're doing a class project, then I'm going to be the one talking and taking the lead. I might not necessarily put all of the work in the project, but I want to help and do as much as I can and get everyone going in the right direction.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Work
  • Help
  • Direction

• I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Love
  • Done
  • Goal

• Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Scary
  • Old

• Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Important
  • Family
  • Energy

• It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Life
  • Motto
  • Be Yourself

• I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Baby

• In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • School
  • Year
  • Looking Back

• As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content.

  

  J. Cole
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Successful

• When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • You
  • Situation
  • Surprise

• I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • See
  • Page
  • Leap

• Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Death
  • Day

• I really hate rubber ducks, actually.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Hate
  • Really
  • Ducks

• Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.

  

  Abdul Qadeer Khan
  • People
  • Day
  • Wall

• I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Always

• I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great – once I could have a giggle, I settled down.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Surprised

• Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Period

• 'When it comes to strangers with guns,' I told her, 'I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Trust

• Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what the Velvet Underground were doing.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Hand

• I don't think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.

  

  James Nachtwey

• So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Long
  • Death

• I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there'll be cold McDonald's and jam sandwiches with several cakes.

  

  Jamie Oliver
  • School
  • Challenge
  • Cold

• For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be finished, but we all long, I think, to see the plays fleshed out on stage and I'm exactly like that. Yes, I'm not satisfied until I actually see it on stage.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Long
  • Play
  • Stage