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.

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

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • World
  • Always
  • Old

• 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 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

• Should one of your employees have a physical or mental health problem, I would argue that it is as much something for the employer as the individual to contend with.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Health

• Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts.

  

  Lewis B. Smedes
  • People
  • Live
  • Society

• There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.

  

  Elizabeth Arden

• After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Time
  • Why
  • Job

• Oh man, I love what the South brings as far as the soul, and I really have noticed from even the early days of listening to OutKast and Goodie Mob that Atlanta and the South has a diverse sound to it. You have bounce music. You have soulful musicians. You have artists with vocals who try to do different things.

  

  Common
  • Music
  • Different
  • Soul

• It doesn't matter if you're small, big, or fit: if you go in front of the camera and deliver and say, 'Oh my God, I look amazing,' and just be sure about yourself, everything will be perfect.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • God
  • Small
  • Perfect

• Playing the misunderstood character has been really interesting to me. But I think after too long, that also becomes a little bit of a cliche. Or that's all you're expected to do. I didn't want that to be the totality of what my career was.

  

  Anne Dudek
  • Long
  • Character
  • Career

• I think a lot of drama, nowadays, is character-based and development-based, but 'True Blood' is very plot-oriented.

  

  Deborah Ann Woll
  • Character
  • True
  • Drama

• 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