Decca Aitkenhead Quotes
I suppose if I didn't write for a living and it couldn't be published, I would have wanted to write anyway. I think there's something about the act of writing that organizes thoughts and memories.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.
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Yoga is a life-saver.
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I write novels and other things.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.
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I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
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'Clash Of The Titans' is one of the biggest movies I've done; it was certainly the most effects I've worked with.
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After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
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Just make people better at something they want to be better at.
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It seemed to them dreadfully dangerous to put it into words like that, for lately the things they didn't want to happen were the things that happened and the logic of this was that if you pretended not to want what you really wanted dreadfully you would be more likely to get it.
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She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
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I suppose if I didn't write for a living and it couldn't be published, I would have wanted to write anyway. I think there's something about the act of writing that organizes thoughts and memories.
