El Anatsui Quotes
I come from a place where you have a lot of sky. But in New York City you have to really look up to realize that there is eventually sky, somewhere. ...Sky is not a common commodity.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.
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Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.
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If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.
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Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.
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I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh, you're a musician. So what kind of music do you play?' And I go, 'Uh, I've been doin' this for many years - I don't know what to call it.'
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I don't think I can plate-spin, I've turned loads of things down because I just can't get the time to do it.
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Singing is actually my favourite thing to do in the world - so when you don't consider yourself as talented at anything academically, and there is one thing you're good at, I think it's best to follow what you're good at.
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You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.
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I am not one of those who thinks that Congress needs to be in session 24 hours a day interfering in peoples' lives.
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But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.
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Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
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I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.
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The first occurrence of the maxim dates back to 1906: Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften Bd. 116, Duncker & Humblot, 1906, S. 686
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Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by religion.
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Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
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Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
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If you've ever questioned your faith, you're going to question it when you are burying your own children.
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The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.
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I come from a place where you have a lot of sky. But in New York City you have to really look up to realize that there is eventually sky, somewhere. ...Sky is not a common commodity.
