Chika Anadu Quotes

While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can and do relate to.

Chika Anadu

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• I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.

  

  Rand Paul
  • World
  • Believe
  • Friend

• The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

  

  Katharine Anthony
  • Truth
  • History
  • Satisfaction

• Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Time
  • Teenager
  • Gym

• I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Time
  • Women
  • Power

• Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Believe
  • Nice

• I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Me
  • Gay
  • Laugh

• I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Believe
  • Place
  • I Believe

• I like the idea of having a superordinary life.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Life
  • Like
  • Idea

• I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • World
  • Always
  • Old

• Cape Town, South Africa, was pretty incredible. That's probably the coolest place I have ever been, and the kiteboarding is insane there. It's so windy, so you can get massive air.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Pretty
  • Air
  • Place

• People still say to me, 'What was it like being in such a huge flop?' The amount of hatred and vitriol was surprising.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People

• … ‘I’ve only one hobby, and that is my wife.’

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Wife

• I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.

  

  Matt Drudge
  • Thinking
  • Future

• My parents owned a hair salon, so I learned a few tricks there. I can cut people's hair - if they let me.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • People
  • Parents
  • Hair

• I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Family

• I keep my head straight by having the right people around me, from my friends and family to my management and my team. They all keep me in my place. If I didn't have them supporting all the work that I do, I wouldn't be in such a solid place.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• What does it really mean to have something change in you very late in your life, after you've structured your life in a different way? What does it mean to be someone who has had a history of sometimes reckless living, and then to really want to change yourself?

  

  Debra Granik
  • Life
  • Different
  • History

• To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Truth

• To play these twisted, tormented characters is very draining. You have to sit in the pocket of that character for the duration of the shoot, which is normally an average of three months, and that can be taxing!

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  • Character

• I'll come up with an idea for a character, and I'll write some jokes and make sure that that character is going to have some legs to it - that it's really going to work. If I can come up with jokes and material that I think will work, then I make a cheap version of the doll. Achmed started out just being this little plastic toy from the store.

  

  Jeff Dunham
  • Up
  • Work
  • Character

• I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Children

• While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can and do relate to.

  

  Chika Anadu
  • Character
  • Female
  • Aspect