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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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
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On the other had, a desire to serve Christ in the ministry may become intense before there is evidence of the necessary gifts...If you yearn to serve Christ in the gospel ministry, that desire is surely a calling to prayer for the Spirit; likely it is also a foretaste and earnest of greater gifts in store.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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By working toward a financial objective, you'll start to see the money add up for retirement or the credit card balance go down. But it doesn't have an immediate impact on your day-to-day life, and when it does - like when you're pinching pennies to save more - the immediate impact could feel negative.
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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.
