Annie Ilonzeh Quotes
'Graceland' getting canceled was definitely a shock and disappointing for all of us. One minute it's this. The next minute it's that.

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I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.
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It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
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I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
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I live in the Dark Ages, the 17th century. Actually, I would have loved to be in Paris in the early 20th century when the Ballets Russes were there and Chanel was designing.
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The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
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Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
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Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life, it is important.
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The flow of people in a setting, their changing relationships to each other and their environment, and their constantly changing expressions and movements - all combine to create dynamic situations that provide the photographer with limitless choices of when to push the button. By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
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I am an enthusiastic European, and my first-hand experience of war and hatred has strengthened that conviction. I have seen how misguided unilateral nationalistic identities have brought destruction and death. I am, however, a world citizen, too.
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Quantum mechanics is just completely strange and counterintuitive. We can't believe that things can be here in one place and there in another place at the same time. And yet that's a fundamental piece of quantum mechanics. So then the question is, life is dealing us weird lemons, can we make some weird lemonade from this?
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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
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'Graceland' getting canceled was definitely a shock and disappointing for all of us. One minute it's this. The next minute it's that.