Ben Okri Quotes
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.Ben Okri
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
J. B. Pritzker -
Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
D.R.A.M. -
Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
Owain Yeoman -
There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
Zach Anner -
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
Haile Selassie
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.
Gautam Singhania -
Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
Gary Hamel -
I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
Kate Bosworth -
You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
Sam J. Jones -
I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
Mandy Patinkin
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
Laura Carmichael -
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Carl Sandburg -
I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
Rachael Harris -
As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
Carla Gugino -
For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
Sam Mendes -
He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
Cab Calloway
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When we've toured with Skid Row and G N' R, we probably turned a few people on to our music, but I get the feeling at one of those shows you might snag maybe 10 percent of the people out there.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.
Max Lerner -
It's like if every single male artist dressed up as farmers. In every video they were on a farm. Whether it was Jason Derulo or Oasis, they're always on a tractor, they're always surrounded by sheep and always in boots. And all the songs are about enjoying farming, and this is all you've had for 10 years - you'd think you were going mad.
Caitlin Moran -
I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing; that's fantastic, but it's only entertainment.
Hayley Westenra Celtic Woman -
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
Ben Okri