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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: nigerian
Birth: September 15, 1977

Topics

Time People Think Poverty Go Poor

It feels so good to win, you want to do it again and again.

Good Win You Want Again Feels

I was raised Catholic, and I remember in all the pamphlets and pictures we'd look at, Jesus was basically blonde with blue eyes. He kind of looked like Jared Leto.

Eyes Blue Blonde Remember Look Kind

I rarely have out-of-town visitors because you have to do things like take them around L.A.

You Things Take Because Like Around

In many ways, Obama is America's first truly digital president. His 2008 campaign relied heavily on social media to lift him out of obscurity.

Social Media America Media Lift Out

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.

Waiting Head Keep Drop Cartoons

I feel like most standup comedians do it the way I did it, where you just go to open mics and cut your teeth. Sketch and improv - they take a lot of classes. It's not unusual, the way I did it. It's just that, with standup, no one knows how to start because there's no book for it; there's no place you can really go.

Start Book Feel You Place Sketch

I saw 'The Shining' really young. I don't think it scarred me, but I had a paper route, and I delivered to some apartment buildings, and it made it a little scary to walk down those hallways.

Walk Me Think Buildings Down Young

Long before social media made things like bib replication easier, banditing at major races was viewed as a brave act. Rebellious runners like John Tarrant gatecrashed races as a political statement, in protest of rules about amateurism that limited how much money athletes could earn in appearance fees and endorsements.

Money Social Media Brave Political

After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude.

Joyce Carol Oates

Time Writing Survive Husband Think

I love awesome mixed drinks.

Jonathan Krisel

Love Awesome Drinks Mixed I Love

Beginning runners come in all shapes, sizes and pre-existing conditions, so there's no magic formula for determining exactly how much basic running is needed before you start speedwork. Most experts, though, recommend three or four months of preparation.

Beginning Preparation Start Magic

The people elected us to end the talk and to act decisively.

People End Talk Act Us Elected

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