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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Sam is a repetitive, comic process that merely marks time: he gets nowhere, but then he doesn’t want to get anywhere. Although there is no possibility of any real change in Sam, he never stops changing: Sam stays there inside Sam, getting less and less like the rest of mankind and more and more like Sam, Sam squared, Sam cubed, Sam to the nth.
Randall Jarrell
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Before I really knew country music, I listened to pop, and I still do.
Kelsea Ballerini
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I started a gymnastics class at five years old, but it became serious at seven.
Laurie Hernandez
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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
