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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Belief contains so many truths pertaining to God's Names and the realities contained in the universe that the most perfect science, knowledge, and virtue is belief and knowledge of God originating in a belief based on argument and investigation.
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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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Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.
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Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.
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My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
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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 only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
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The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it’s blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every morning for the rest of my life, but that wouldn’t solve anything.
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I was writing a story, 'The Artistic Career of Corky,' about two young men, Bertie Wooster and his friend Corky, getting into a lot of trouble, and neither of them had brains enough to get out of the trouble. I thought: Well, how can I get them out? And I thought: Suppose one of them had an omniscient valet?
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Shame is the power we give others to wield over us.
