Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

Jessica Livingston

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I was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn't have any tragedy.

Melissa McCarthy

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People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

Anna Deavere Smith

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The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

Anita Hill

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Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Stephen Hawking

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A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

Spike Lee

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I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

Simon McBurney

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I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.

Rosie Perez

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Whatever I do, I just want it to be good.

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

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It's difficult to articulate how I know it's the right actor, but I do. It's instinct. Intuition.

Christopher Guest

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I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.

Brooke Langton

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The reason I'm in San Diego is not because I want distance from South Africa but because I want proximity to the people I love. But I don't envy growing up in America. As ugly as aspects of it were, my biggest blessing was to be born a South African.

Athol Fugard

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