Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat, but are good for you.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodMedicineYouDownSometimes

When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.

Jim Evans

MeNightSummerTryMoreUp

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

Maya Angelou

MindThinkSearchYouSituationSay

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

Stephen King

LifeSadHappyRealAlwaysEndings

I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse. So I wanted to write a record about that instead of another song about broken hearts and drinking.

Sturgill Simpson

BrokenSongReadingWriteUpTheory

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.

Shimon Peres

TimeMeArmyFirstRankSensitive

I don't want to compare myself to anyone else, but there's Paul Smith, who I think does a great job. I feel like once I sort everything to the best quality, I'll be able to compete with them.

Rob Kardashian

GreatMyselfBestQualityJobThink

I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic - oriented guitar record that I've already written most of the material for.

Ronnie Montrose

WorkGuitarPlanDownCalifornia

The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.

Roy Wood

PeopleFirstLittleSawEverWere

At noon I get to the gym to do my boxing workout. Three hours there. Rest. Once in a while I get a massage, because I need it once in while.

Juan Manuel Marquez

RestGymBoxingThreeMassageNeed

Public service is about serving all the people, including the ones who are not like you.

Constance Wu

ServicePeoplePublic ServiceYou

The fans know that I have been giving it my all and that we had the good judgment to when to say when.

Bobby Rahal

GoodGivingKnowSayJudgmentFans

I was the guy who was friends with everybody. Yes, I had my core group of friends, but I wasn't part of a clique that excluded people. I hope they thought I was a nice guy. I tried to be just friendly and outgoing. I was class president. I'm supposed to run my class reunion in 2013.

Austin Stowell

HopePeopleThoughtFriendsNice

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