Ben Okri Quotes
When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.
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I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
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Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
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The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
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With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?
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They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.
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Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.
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Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
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I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it?
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I honestly believe that history will be kinder to me than the contemporary media, or for that matter, the Opposition parties in Parliament.
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Mother, mother There's too many of you crying. Brother, brother, brother There's far too many of you dying. You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today.
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This is just what human beings do-turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth. Tit for tat.
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As a guest, Emily Price had three main drawbacks: she was incapable of saying please, incapable of saying thank you and incapable of saying sorry, all the while creating a surge in the demand for these expressions.
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I've never moved. I've never ever wanted to.
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I like to joke that if I had a dollar for everybody who slapped me on the back and said, 'Hey Jeb, you're all set,' I'd be retired now.
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I listened to a lot of Amy Winehouse: her albums 'Frank' and 'Back to Black'. She was such an incredible artist. She was just so raw and had her unique sound; she paired jazz with pop and was so soulful at the same time. So I pulled from her a lot in the beginning.
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And innovation and entrepreneurship is the opportunity and best opportunity we have to grow the economy.
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I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being Muslim in America is as valid and as important a perspective on the religious experience of America as evangelical Christianity or Judaism - whatever it may be.
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As soon as I saw him go up for the ball I knew it wasn't going to be dropped. He doesn't drop balls.
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That is what made America great: that everyone had the opportunity to be a winner. And I think it's still there. I'm certainly a beneficiary of it.
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There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever.
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When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.
