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.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Energy
  • Independent
  • Security

• 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.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Feelings
  • Emotional
  • See

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Kid

• I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Time
  • Long
  • Long Time

• 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.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Work
  • Know
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • World
  • Live
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Believe
  • Young
  • Luck

• Through geospatial technologies, you can plan a whole city sitting in your room.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • You
  • City
  • Plan

• I don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Want
  • Me
  • Mad

• My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • School
  • Me
  • Mom

• That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Business
  • Space
  • Office

• 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.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Career

• 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.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Real
  • True
  • Daily

• 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.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Question
  • Model
  • Ethics

• The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve as strong as possible, designed for counterattacking and for providing itself, at the moment it goes into action, with a security service which will guard it from any possible surprise.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Strong
  • Action
  • Service

• Business: Busyness.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Business

• The belief that we can be done with our past is a myth.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Done
  • Past

• Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Stronger
  • Minimum Wage

• I was a maniac as a teenager; I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I was crazy.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Crazy
  • Teenager

• People are looking for a way to take action, to do something other than donate on the Turnpike on their way to work, which seems impersonal.

  

  Chuck Brown
  • People
  • Work
  • Action

• In order for a narrative to work, the primary character should have a concrete desire - a need that drives her story - and the story's writer should make this goal known to the reader pretty early in the narrative.

  

  Darin Strauss
  • Work
  • Character
  • Pretty

• Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

  

  Aminatta Forna