Chinelo Okparanta Quotes
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I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.
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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
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To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.
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As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
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'Salam aleikum.'
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Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.
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Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.
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I play on a soccer team.
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Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.
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The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
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When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.
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I didn't want to be written about as a human-interest story. I didn't want to be a passing thing. You know, now we move on to the fat girl who had her stomach stapled. I didn't want to become a gimmick: the disabled model.
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My definition of a producer is 'the man with the dream.'
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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
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Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.
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I am opposed to the wholesale giving away of the public lands to railroad corporations and other like institutions; at the same time, I believe that the government can encourage, by gifts, great national enterprises which are for the common weal and are so placed that they cannot properly expect local support.
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Shame is the power we give others to wield over us.
