Ben Okri Quotes
Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
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I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.
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Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
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We certainly grew up and had opportunities. But it's not like our parents are aristocratic blue bloods.
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I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.
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I think space and music go hand in hand in the sense that they give a little more mystery and magic to life.
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War is the most extraordinary, extreme human experience.
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The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid.
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Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.
