Aminatta Forna Quotes
I get a very vague idea and - perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that's what made me want to be a journalist - I go off and explore it for a bit, rather than mapping out a plot and then filling in the research.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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When it comes to setting the market values, I let that stuff take care of itself. I know my value in this league, and I know the team appreciates me. I'm going to continue to make myself an indispensable part of this roster. When you do that, when your time comes up to get a contract, you usually get a contract extension.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.
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If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
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I get a very vague idea and - perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that's what made me want to be a journalist - I go off and explore it for a bit, rather than mapping out a plot and then filling in the research.
