Ben Okri Quotes
I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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When you've already experienced great challenges in your career, it gives minor setbacks a different perspective.
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I listened to R. Kelly growing up.
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I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.
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I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.
