Wole Soyinka Quotes
My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
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The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!
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I really loved the 'Sopranos' but didn't have HBO. So someone would send me tapes of the show with three or four episodes. I would watch one episode and go: 'Oh my God, I've got to watch one more.' I'd watch the whole tape and champ at the bit for the next one.
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There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.
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If we do not play 'Alabama,' our fans would kill us.
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After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.
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Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.
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The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind us all of the danger of complacency during our continued war on terror.
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A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
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I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent that the reader would forget that language was the medium of understanding. Of course that's not possible, but it's some sort of idealized goal.
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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
