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Toyin Odutola Quotes

I needed to create something I could take with me wherever I went.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: nigerian
Birth: 1985

Topics

Me Create Wherever Take Something

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.

Work Training School Singing Go Out

I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.

End Result Newspaper Happen Profile

Just ask the local people for the best food. Don't rely on a guidebook.

Masaharu Morimoto

Food Best People Ask Just Rely

I've become more and more comfortable with occasionally dressing sexier, but I still hope to express a 'cool' type of sensuality.

Hope Cool Comfortable Become More

Show your kids that needs and wants are two different things. The best way to teach our kids to be smart consumers - and savvy savers - is to model good behavior for them.

Good Best Smart Behavior Teach Way

I have a British and an American passport.

Joshua Oppenheimer

American Passport British

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.'

Work Play Others Outside Lines Well

The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there.

People Attention You Overwhelmed

The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere.

Drawing Seeing Never Same Always

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.

Time Responsibility Child Me Advice

I read Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat' when I was 11.

I grew up in Compton: 116th and Wilmington.

Up Wilmington Grew

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