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.Aminatta Forna
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
Zane Grey -
I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
J. L. Austin -
I kind of crave loneliness.
Sam Heughan -
In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
Uday Kotak
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
Olin Miller -
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
Taylor Caldwell -
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.
Imogen Poots -
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.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
Dakota Johnson -
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
Waris Dirie -
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.
Victor Garber -
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.
Vidal Sassoon -
For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.
Harbhajan Singh -
I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
Maisie Williams -
The journey matters as much as the goal.
Kalpana Chawla
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I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real.
Paul Walker -
The important thing when it comes to grooming, as when it comes to clothes, is you do not want anything to distract from the strength and power of your ideas,.
Vanessa Friedman -
The calmest part of my day is right before a match.
Dean Ambrose -
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
William Osler -
I was a horrible athlete.
Daniel Espinosa -
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.
Aminatta Forna