Chenjerai Hove Quotes

Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.

Chenjerai Hove

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• No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Getting Older

• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Politics
  • Decisions
  • Doors

• Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Me
  • Never
  • Find

• A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • People
  • Live
  • Pretty

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Up
  • Green

• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Business
  • Character

• If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Lose
  • Sight

• It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Guy
  • Style
  • Guitar

• If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Day
  • Week
  • Three

• Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Effort
  • Same

• I'm just a human being. I'm from the projects, too.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Human
  • Being
  • Human being

• How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

  

  Malcolm X
  • Giving

• Man must act in such a way that the whole of his individuality lies in each moment.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Lies

• Accidental stacks considered harmful.

  

  Larry Wall

• The lack of collective dignity felt by so many in the Arab world is the result of a combination of internal autocratic and corrupt regimes, with predictable ineffective and unaccountable governance, supported by external actors with short-term geopolitical interests.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • World

• It's in this book I was reading. Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • Time
  • Book
  • Bad

• You see a Party system that crushes down anybody who has different opinions, who has different ideas in their mind. Simply to have different opinions can cost someone their life. They can be put in jail, they can be silenced, and they can disappear. And the other people would take it, not giving support.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw.

  

  Chester Brown
  • Up
  • Religious

• So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Ugly
  • Face

• To be honest, the first time round, I didn't think 'Fame Academy' was the worst premise in the world. You got people on, and they would write songs and develop themselves as artists. But then, instead of getting a little bit more credible, it got a little bit more ridiculous.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Trump's been a public personality forever, and that's fine if you want him to be a reality-TV host, but if you want him to be president, there's a different standard.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Forever

• Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.

  

  Chenjerai Hove
  • World
  • Space
  • Creativity