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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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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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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I hope people learn the power of vulnerability through my songs. I think vulnerability can save the world. Empathy helps people connect with each other.
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Faith sir! She looks like the Old Course.
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Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.
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I'd have to say that the things that mean the most to me are the examples of original comic art that I'm able to look at every day, most of them either by notable friends and/or for projects that I've worked on.
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Novels often thin themselves out to a watery hue - some even start that way - and at times seem to only ride along the surface of things, giving us what we already know, reporting the news that is just news.
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Shame is the power we give others to wield over us.
