Aminatta Forna Quotes
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all traditional Catholics. But my mother was the black sheep of the family - she ran away to the ballet at 17.
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My family's a ruling family.
