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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

I think white women need to wake up and say, 'Not all women are white,' three times in front of the mirror.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Women Mirror Wake Up Think White Up

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

Now Development Sustainable Accepted

I called the book 'The Senator Next Door,' not 'The President Next Door.'

Door Book President Next Next Door

When I played Ivanhoe, kids used to come along and kick me because they thought I wore armour under my clothes. When I was Maverick, I was accepted as a cowboy. And in 'The Persuaders,' I became Lord Brett Sinclair. In other words, I am what I am for as long as I am.

Words I Am Me Thought Clothes Long

As the character talks and moves, the world around him is slowly revealed, just like dollying a camera back for a wider look at things. So all my stories start with a character, and that character introduces setting, culture, conflict, government, economy... all of it, through his or her eyes.

Character Eyes Culture Government

My father was in terrible pain towards the end because of his bed sores, and he did go into hospice, and I think that was better in some ways. You know, I think his death was peaceful, and it was all right. He was just in terrible pain.

Father Death Pain Think End Better

Europeans have it better than the Americans. The Americans work too hard. The balance is out of whack. Europe's hung onto a little bit more of living a life and then working as well.

Life Work Balance Better Living Out

Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they'll wither away.

Profit Intellectual Others Resources

The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.

Douglas Kennedy

Time Decision Small Write Old Radio

It is a business. I know we, as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA, never want to say that it's a business and things like that. It is a business.

Business People Know Say Want Never

I've always had a day job and never been just acting.

Day Job Acting Never Always Been

Humanity is the child of religion.

Religion Child Humanity

With the Internet, we can communicate instantly across the globe, but the net also makes it possible for us to shrink ever further into our own skins - a state of being that neither suits the human temperament nor provides ground for further growth.

Mariella Frostrup

Growth Suits Internet Possible Human

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