Taiye Selasi Quotes
Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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Excellence always sells.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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For me, work is one thing, and my life is another.
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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
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Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.
