Taiye Selasi Quotes
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
Taiye Selasi
Quotes to Explore
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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
Caleb Cushing
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Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
Kaley Cuoco
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
Larry Ellison
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
Idris Elba
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
Sam Shepard
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On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
H. Allen Smith
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
Vaclav Havel
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
Barbara Demick
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
Walt Disney
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I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.
Imogen Poots
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For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
Gary Frank
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
Gary Barlow
Take That
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Does anyone want to see a person who's making the money that the newspapers say I'm making complaining, 'Woe is me, my life is terrible, and people are being unfair?' No one would've had any patience for that. I wouldn't have any patience for that.
Matt Lauer
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I think that the instinct that people have when they see a beautifully produced web series is that they think it must have been made for television and they just chopped it up and put it online.
John Cabrera
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Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Puerto Ricans, it doesn't matter where they live, it doesn't matter how long it's been since they visited the island, their hearts are there. If you keep them informed, and if you say to them, 'This is important for Puerto Rico, go and call your congressman,' they do it. They do it.
Anibal Acevedo Vila
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
Taiye Selasi
