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.Aminatta Forna
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I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
Zachary Levi -
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde -
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
Pankaj Mishra -
No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
Taylor Swift -
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.
Camille Paglia -
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg
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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.
Olivia Colman -
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.
Harrison Ford -
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
Dan Glickman -
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.
Mandy Patinkin -
If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
Vikram Seth -
There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
Eddie Izzard
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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.
Rafe Spall -
My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
Valerie Bertinelli -
I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
Patricia Schroeder -
Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
Yoko Ono -
The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.
Hans Blix
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The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience.
Bobbie Ann Mason -
I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
Salma Hayek -
Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.
William Friedkin -
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.
Aminatta Forna