Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HappyChildThinkPushBackBeen

The thing is the game is getting tougher and tougher and we have to ask a lot of our bodies.

Amelie Mauresmo

GameAskOurGettingThingTougher

That's the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

Sofia Coppola

WorkWayTrySeeImagineWould

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Simone Weil

LifeGodLife Is APerfectParable

What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

Tristan Wilds

LifeGoodBeautifulPeopleStory

Improving veterans' employment is an all-hands-on-deck enterprise. We work with the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, with private sector partners and others.

Tom Perez

WorkVeteransOthersImproving

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

Russell Banks

SimpleBookMotivationViewEasy

I was born in Japan and moved to L.A. when I was six, and I grew up with Japanese culture. I was reading manga, and I read 'Death Note' in real time in Japanese.

Masi Oka

TimeCultureDeathReadingBornUp

Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do.

Mary Lambert

WorkJobPoetryPageStriveWord

To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.

Chester Bennington

WeirdSuccessfulBeingUnsuccessful

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

Christy Turlington

FearDailyDeathOutActUs

There's a great tradition among the English of writing about Berlin. It's kind of a state of mind, almost. That even translates in terms of music. A lot of people go to Berlin with the idea that it's a state of mind.

Philip Kerr

MusicGreatPeopleMindWritingGo

I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with.

Norman Granz

ThinkWillOverUnitedAgainRather

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