Aminatta Forna Quotes
What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.
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An artist has gotta be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's at somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming.
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Now I know what the atom looks like.
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In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.
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We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.
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Because we didn't cooperate with China, we gave them motivation to develop their own capability. You know, they developed a very capable rocket system, very capable spacecraft. And if we don't cooperate with them in the future, they're going to develop more capable systems. If we're working together on a highly visible project, there is going to be much less, or there is going to be motivation for each country to not get into a conflict or any kind of tension in the military sense.
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What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
