Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CreativePeopleWritingLivingUs

I love anything vintage. And I love Marc Jacobs and shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti.

Meagan Good

LoveShoesVintageAnythingI Love

Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.

Angela Cartwright

GoodBusinessToughRejectionTry

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

Stephen Jay Gould

PeopleSeedsToolsLearnPolitical

The way I understand the rules on trading on inside information, it's very vague.

Steven A. Cohen

InformationRulesUnderstandWay

If I had gone to a big company, it would have been very difficult for me to do research freely. At a big company, say Sony, there are very, very good researchers. So I would have to ask them what I could do.

Shuji Nakamura

GoodMeResearchSayAskDifficult

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.

Mary Hansen

LifeChangePeopleSocietyHelpShe

I am a stupendously fast reader and always have been. I can read in at least three languages fluently and two languages with a little bit more difficulty.

Michael Korda

I AmFastI CanThreeMoreAlways

Frankly, a lot of candidates have no problem being sold to the highest bidder if it means they will win.

Jason Kander

WinProblemWillBeingMeansSold

I realize how talented our hair and wardrobe people are every time I have to get dressed on my own.

Jon Hamm

TimePeopleHairDressedMy OwnOwn

Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters.

Diedrich Bader

LearnEnoughLongYouListenImprov

I meet astrophysicists almost every week who say that they went into their line of work because of '2001.'

Douglas Trumbull

WorkWeekSayMeetLineAlmost

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

Chuck Palahniuk

GodCancerUsGiveFinallyHe

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