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Aminatta Forna Quotes

I get a very vague idea and - perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that's what made me want to be a journalist - I go off and explore it for a bit, rather than mapping out a plot and then filling in the research.

Aminatta Forna

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: 1964

Topics

Me Research Go Want Explore Out

I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.

Jimmy Smith

Son Bell Bells Played Eddie Taylor

I want my clothes to have a life and then end up in a secondhand store, where some cool girl discovers them 20 years later. If the runway or red carpet is the only life clothes have, it's sad.

Jeremy Scott

Life Girl Sad Red Cool End

I'm not very complicated.

Joe Torre

Complicated Very

Usually, on Broadway or in Hollywood, you come up with a project, and you have to convince the producers that it's safe.

Robert Lepage

You Hollywood Project Up Convince

So many girls and boys are looking up to me, and I have to conduct myself in a way that I don't disappoint too many people and I don't generate any kind of hate or propaganda for any reason. And I think we all should do that.

Mawra Hocane

Myself Hate People Me Looking Think

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

Robert Graves

Love Status Must Amateur Strictly

Ours was not always a nation of homeowners; the New Deal fashioned it so, particularly through the G.I. Bill of Rights.

Matthew Desmond

New New Deal Bill Of Rights Nation

Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

John Podhoretz

Now Animals Two Used Comedians Who

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew 'Terra Nova' is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the Hubble. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

Stephen Lang

Chance Seasons Television Will Renew

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

Rita Ora

Work Yourself Friends Know Yourself

Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.

Compay Segundo

Time Singing Saying You Say Talk

I give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

Claudia Christian

Doubt Everyone Give Benefit