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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Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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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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I'm not very good at going to parties and looking like I'm having fun.
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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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The chairs and tables around us which broadcast to us incessantly those signals which affect our sight and touch cannot in their nature be like unto the signals or to the sensations which the signals awake at the end of their journey.
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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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The Chinese novel was written primarily to amuse the common people. And when I say amuse I do not mean only to make them laugh, though laughter is also one of the aims of the Chinese novel. I mean amusement in the sense of absorbing and occupying the whole attention of the mind. I mean enlightening that mind by pictures of life and what that life means.
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He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.
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But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.
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It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.
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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.
