Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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GoodThinkLiteratureYouKindHere

Composing music is hard work.

John Williams

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Anthrax is a deadly inhalational disease.

Steven Hatfill

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I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

Steven Spielberg

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It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.

Strom Thurmond

KnowledgeMenGovernmentSmallRing

I was raised by a single mother, and she felt the Japanese education system, albeit wonderful, keeps you in a certain range. You have to be better than this level but below this level.

Masi Oka

EducationMotherBetterYouShe

Monetary conditions exert an enormous influence on stock prices. Indeed, the monetary climate - primarily the trend in interest rates and Federal Reserve policy - is the dominant factor in determining the stock market's major direction.

Martin Zweig

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Hopefully my books are improving. One of the ways I find motivation to improve is looking at someone who is already at a high level and continues to get better with each book. That's really what you want to emulate.

Michael Koryta

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I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.

Debra Messing

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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

Clare Boothe Luce

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I don't want to be known as the Aerosmith chick, but it's fun to put on the boots and makeup and act like a tough girl.

Alicia Silverstone

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The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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I think people got this idea that I wanted to be a star. Managers of the past don't have any kind of public persona - it's all about the fame of the artist. I really don't want to be a star. I just want to have a platform.

Scooter Braun

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