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 got a seven-year-old kid up on stage with me the other night and he knew every word to that song. Some people go their whole career without ever having a song anywhere near that big... When I first heard it I couldn't believe I didn't write the lyrics myself because it's the story of my life.
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A masterful retreat is itself a victory.
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Love ever gives-forgives-outlives and ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogative - to give and give and give.
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That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.
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Shame is the power we give others to wield over us.
