Aminatta Forna Quotes
No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here's a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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Next fight? If the UFC tell me, 'What do you want?' I'm going to say Tony Ferguson.
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I feel like I have one foot in New York, one foot in London and one foot in India. But it's important to me to invest time with family.
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The white man is very clever. He came quietly with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
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All I can say is [kids] have turned out to be terrific young women. We were concerned mostly about whether they'd develop an attitude, right?
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No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.
