Wole Soyinka Quotes
Next to the commodities of corruption, and religion, however, Nigeria is the world capital of rumour mongering.

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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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The study titled 'Impact of Immigration on Wages, by Education Level, 1994-2007' found that increased immigration had an effect of lowering wages for earlier immigrants by an average of 4.6 percent. Running counter to popular perception is the finding that for native-born Americans, wages actually increased by 0.6 percent.
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I was planning to study more, but it's a struggle with so many opportunities for film and trying to get better through studying. No matter what, I want to be making more movies.
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I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.
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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
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In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it.
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When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'
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I don't find these technical things like flowers and chocolates romantic at all. I think Valentine's Day makes no sense.
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I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.
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I am a defender of the Tea Party.
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As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?
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...so go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.
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Next to the commodities of corruption, and religion, however, Nigeria is the world capital of rumour mongering.