Aminatta Forna Quotes
I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.
Quotes to Explore
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I'm a fast writer.
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Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
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I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.
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I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
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I am just one human being.
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I love anything that makes you feel empowered. I'm 'bout that - you can't be scared.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
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I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
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When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.
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A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now.
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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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I'd rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I'd like to be seen in New York, that's not my driving motivation. My motivation is to play great roles, wherever they happen.
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Stop allowing yourself to focus on depressing life circumstances - including focusing on being depressed about your weight. All this negative focus will only lead you to feeling bummed and wanting to pig out. Instead, consciously focus on happy life circumstances you enjoy doing, and create more of them!
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In 1990, I was in 'The Three Sisters' at the Royal Court and won the Clarence Derwent award for my supporting role as Natasha - the prize was £100. I could have paid the gas bill, but I ended up buying a porcelain and silver Bavarian coffee set in an antiques shop in Penzance.
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When I was 19 years old, I hitchhiked across the country to San Francisco.
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These mountains were given to us by the Great Chief so that we might never be depressed.
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I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.
