Edward Enninful Quotes
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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I was raised to believe that America was a force for good in the world and that it should take its leadership role seriously.
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I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up.
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The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
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To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
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Some makeup you put on and feel like you're getting pimples by the hour.
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Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.
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I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.
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Once you've figured out how to wait on people and clean toilets, it makes you very mindful of how you treat the people who are serving you.
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From here, our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital
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Labor’s message then is this: we believe in a strong economy; we believe also in a fair go for all, not just for some.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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The hands really show signs of age.
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This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half a billion people who could live a sustainable life in relative comfort. Human populations must be greatly diminished, and as quickly as possible to limit further environmental damage.
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Social media is fine, depending on how you use it.
