Ben Okri Quotes
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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I accept the fact that angels are great heavenly beings, and I think some people give me the feeling that I'm with an angel.
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I will run an open government that speaks with honesty, seeks opinion, listens to its citizens.
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The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.
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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
