Wole Soyinka Quotes
Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem to suffice. I mean, they are not mutually exclusive. One continues to write anyway but if you are called out to demonstrate, if people are being killed in the streets, it's hardly the moment to go for your pen and paper, you know, help in one way or the other.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.
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As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.
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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
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My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
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I'm trying to get to bed, and you guys are singing 'The Whole World's in my fucking hand.' I'd rather you shut the fuck up!
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O proud philanthropist, your hope is vainTo get by giving what you lost by gain.
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'Starman' was one of my favorite movies growing up.
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How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?
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I'm an atheist. I don't believe in the afterlife, but I do believe in ghosts.
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My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.
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I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.
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You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.
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Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem to suffice. I mean, they are not mutually exclusive. One continues to write anyway but if you are called out to demonstrate, if people are being killed in the streets, it's hardly the moment to go for your pen and paper, you know, help in one way or the other.
