Wole Soyinka Quotes
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
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There is an opportunity to recreate the financial world as we know it in the parallel universe that is the blockchain. We are writing rules for this whole new universe.
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A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
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I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.
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I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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'American Idol' is a juggernaut... Because of my 'American Idol' win, I am able to do the thing that I love most, which is to be an entertainer.
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Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and space exploration. The fire he stole can be seen, too, as the spark generating all artistic creativity.
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Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
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I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change.
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Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.
