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.
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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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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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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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I tend to root for characters who have a lot of negative qualities, but what's driving them forward is their passion. They're on a mission, and maybe their approach is misguided, but you can't fault them for giving 150%.
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There is a large element of me in every role I do.
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Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action.
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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.
