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.Ben Okri
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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.
Damon Lindelof -
Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
Cameron Russell -
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.
Natasha Trethewey -
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.
Walter Cronkite -
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?
Nathan Myhrvold -
They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.
Jacki Weaver
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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.
Ted Danson -
Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
Carl Orff -
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?
Zaha Hadid -
I honestly believe that history will be kinder to me than the contemporary media, or for that matter, the Opposition parties in Parliament.
Manmohan Singh -
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.
Marvin Gaye -
This is just what human beings do-turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth. Tit for tat.
Chuck Palahniuk
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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.
Edward St Aubyn -
And innovation and entrepreneurship is the opportunity and best opportunity we have to grow the economy.
Jerry Moran -
My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.
Miranda Lambert -
I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.
Donald Judd -
Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.
Eric Alterman -
I remember I was supposed to take the bar exam that summer just when we got the chance to make our first feature. I told my parents I wasn't going to take the bar exam, and they were pretty upset about it.
Kevin Heffernan
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A catwalk show is just how it's done; it's just what you do - it's central to the presentation of a collection. It will be a very brave designer who gives up the catwalk entirely in favour of a digital show.
Matthew Williamson -
I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.
Penelope Cruz -
Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture.
Craig Owens Chiodos -
We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us.
Mary-Kate Olsen -
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.
Ben Okri