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Toyin Odutola Quotes

When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Toyin Odutola

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: nigerian
Birth: 1985

Topics

History Time School People Black

In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.

Jim Costa

Strength Community Best Peace World

'House of Cards' was amazing to work on. I couldn't believe I landed there.

Joanna Going

Work Amazing Believe House Cards

For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.

Andrei Sakharov

Family Time Lie Me Pressure Friends

I'm an instinctual actor. I don't really talk about it. Usually if I get a script and I'm having trouble with it, I go to sleep and I dream about it because I'm super internal with the way I work.

Megyn Price

Work Sleep Dream Trouble Go Way

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

Stendhal

Present Earth Race Events Charming

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

Steven Spielberg

Hero War Think Boots Sand Heroes

Other countries have been founded by 'accidents of force.' America is a creation of thought.

Dinesh D'Souza

Thought America Creation Accidents

It doesn't matter if it's a small role: if I know I can pull it off and have a good team, I will do it.

Disha Patani

Good Team Small I Can Know Matter

My secret has always been to be true to myself.

Chiara Ferragni

Myself Be True True Secret Always

I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.

Conor Oberst

Life Sad Rest Sadness Think Better

You'll get, like, 10 pages of sides the night before, and you have to go in and just wing it. For someone like me, I came from the theater, and I don't like putting anything up in front of anybody until it's really, really ready, so it can be very frustrating.

Brian J. Smith

Me Night Someone You Ready Go

Some members of the Vienna Philharmonic convinced me to try Bruckner, which I have never done before. And that was interesting to me to have this experience with this orchestra, which knows the repertoire very well, and to be confronted with this knowledge, and to learn from them.

Pierre Boulez

Knowledge Experience Me Learn Done