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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
-
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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?
-
I'm not very good at going to parties and looking like I'm having fun.
-
They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.
-
Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.
-
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
-
I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.
-
Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
-
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?
-
I honestly believe that history will be kinder to me than the contemporary media, or for that matter, the Opposition parties in Parliament.
-
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.
-
This is just what human beings do-turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth. Tit for tat.
-
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.
-
I've never moved. I've never ever wanted to.
-
Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.
-
I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.
-
If one can create a purposeful, meaningful life then there's no room for drugs or alcohol. It's not on the list anymore.
-
Heading out to L.A., doing this acting thing. You can't rest on your laurels out there. You finish a film, you don't know how it's going to do. You're talking about that next job, usually.
-
And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.
-
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.
