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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
-
If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
-
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.
-
No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
-
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.
-
I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
-
Excellence always sells.
-
Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
-
You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
-
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
-
It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
-
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.
-
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
-
It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.
-
Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His righteousness. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient for salvation. There must be atonement made for sin according to the righteousness of God. The person to make this atonement must be God and man.
-
The truth is lived, not taught.
-
Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
-
Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.
-
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.
