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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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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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'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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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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I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.
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I've always been shocked that people that I'm actually flying with say, 'Oh, I feel safer on the plane with you.' I'm thinking, 'You must not watch the show because everybody around me gets killed.'
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We are all vulnerable, and we will all, at some point in our lives... fall. We will all fall. We must carry this in our hearts... that what we have is special. That it can be taken from us, and when it is taken from us, we will be tested. We will be tested to our very souls. We will now all be tested. It is these times, it is this pain, that allows us to look inside ourselves.
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Any time you talk to anyone about something that they love, they're, like, their most beautiful. It's a cool gift to get to talk to people about what they love.
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I try not to read acting books any more, but they set a high bar for me very early on.
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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.
