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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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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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.
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In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it.
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I used to be obsessed with Johnny Depp. I never thought of him as this normal guy. I just always imagined him as someone who lives in a far-off land and doesn't even exist.
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I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music.
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Focusing totally on technique, you lose the essence and power of simplicity... The other extreme is just as bad; you see it in a lot of Modern works, where the concept is more important than the technique, resulting in very poor craftsmanship.
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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.
