Wole Soyinka Quotes
Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.

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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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I have hair that looks like you could just take it off and plug a new style on.
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I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.
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My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
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The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.
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If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.
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Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Since I was a kid, baking has been part of my life.
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I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
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Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.