Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ImaginationPeopleMeWorldReal

The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster.

John C. Calhoun

DayBalanceWarRevolutionPolitical

You don't pay an actor to act. An actor will do that for free because we love to act. You pay an actor to wait.

John Candy

LoveWaitFreeYouActorWill

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

Jeremy Renner

CharacterManThinkActorDifference

Decades before we were able to articulate the value of 'getting out of the building' and the Lean Startup, the value in having skunk works controlling their own distribution was starkly evident.

Steve Blank

ValueBuildingOutOwnAbleLean

My father loved people, children and pets.

Tony Visconti

FatherChildrenPeopleLovedPets

Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in the dense atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter, swarms of intelligent insects, nano-scale robots and more.

Martin Rees

LifeScienceSpaceIdeasSearch

To be knighted, that would be amazing. I remember Alex Ferguson from Man Utd got it and Steve Redgrave - to be in the same category as them is amazing.

Mo Farah

ManAmazingRememberSameGotWould

True love lasts forever.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

LoveTrue LoveTrueForeverLasts

There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

Don Tapscott

MotherPeopleWorldGenerationYoung

Our studio is kind of built into our home, so it's a place you can ramble, and we can do a pretty good recording here. The band is really comfortable her.

Chris Frantz

GoodHomeYouPlaceKindBand

One of the things I have always said about the man-woman relationship is that I don't want anybody to walk ahead of me, and I don't want anybody to walk behind me. I want a man who will walk along beside me. And that's how I feel about equal rights.

Cicely Tyson

RelationshipWalkManMeFeelSaid

For me and accent work, I think once you've figured out where that energy is, where the sound is in your throat or your mouth, it's a whole lot easier to do.

Allison Tolman

WorkMeEnergyThinkYouMouth

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