Wole Soyinka Quotes
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
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I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.
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I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.
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If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
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Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
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When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.
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The way I look at it, Mark McCain could have grown up to lead dance bands in the 1920s and '30s. As a young man who sang and played the guitar in two episodes, he might have made his way to Los Angeles, where there was lots of work for musicians in the early 1900s. By 1931, when he would have been the same age that I am now, he might have been leading his own band. I like to think he would have.
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I think it's getting a little ridiculous, to tell you the truth. We've got to realize what we're playing for. Now's the time to want it more than anything. ... I'm very surprised about the attitude and stuff that's happening. It seems like the willingness to go out there and give it all you've got to win is just not there.
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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
