Aminatta Forna Quotes
Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without OLGA.
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Like a lot of young lads who dreamt about being a singer, I was a massive fan of Robbie Williams and couldn't believe my luck when, not only did I get to meet my idol, but sing with him, too.
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Through geospatial technologies, you can plan a whole city sitting in your room.
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I don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want.
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My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
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That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.
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I have a career I love more than I can tell you, and I have it because I work incredibly hard pretty much every single day.
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The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily.
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Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question.
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I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot.
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I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
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The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause.
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I can only speak for myself - I don't care how I look.
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The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.
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Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.
