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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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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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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A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
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Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
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Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.
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It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.
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Having a parent live with you under the best of circumstances can be a terrible stressor.
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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.
