Ben Okri Quotes
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
Ben Okri
Quotes to Explore
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The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
Nassau William Senior
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
Sam Mendes
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
Irving Babbitt
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I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.
Paloma Elsesser
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
Sam Worthington
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Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.
Leigh Steinberg
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How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.
Colleen McCullough
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I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.
Dinaw Mengestu
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I can write dramas that are about inside and outside the courtroom.
Marcia Clark
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More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'
Jean-Luc Godard
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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
Ben Okri