Taiye Selasi Quotes
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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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.
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Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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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.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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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.
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On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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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.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.
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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.
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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.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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You're only as good as your last haircut.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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I'm not radical.
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I don't spend on expensive brands. I don't need foreign holidays.
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Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.
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For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out the facts. We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased, and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.
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Women and eating disorders have such a long history, but now I see it happening to gay men. And when it comes to anorexia, bulimia, body dysmorphia, gay men are far worse than women. They take it way more seriously. 'Why diet when you can take crystal meth?'
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
