Aminatta Forna Quotes
I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close - a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
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Thoughts in a poem. The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
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Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.
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I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.
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I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.
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I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.
