Chinua Achebe Quotes

I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was something inside me that wanted me to tell who I was, and that would have come out even if I didn't want it.

Chinua Achebe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: nigerian
  • Birth: November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013

Topics

MeNowWantInsideOutTell

The Sermon on the Mount is a very nice piece about being good, but most of the Bible is a very revengeful, childish, brutal God.

Stellan Skarsgard

GoodGodBibleNiceChildishBeing

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.

Simon Hoggart

New YorkTiredYouPartyNewLiving

Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again coming out of a disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter and Watergate before that.

Rush Limbaugh

GreatPeopleAmericaRealYearsOut

I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe.

Mary-Kate Olsen

LoveDayCookingSchoolRestaurant

I am just grateful I have a British passport and a country here.

Mo Farah

GratefulI AmCountryPassportHere

When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

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I would always have been the geek who's your friend. I will never be the dark guy with a sensitive side, as much as I yearn to be.

Jon Cryer

FriendDarkWillNeverAlwaysSide

When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could take an aspect of myself, and from that one bit of personality, I can create a character. This is what I have done, particularly in my novels.

Jonathan Ames

GoodCharacterTeacherMyselfMe

The right moral compass is trying hard to think about what customers want.

Sundar Pichai

ThinkTryingMoralWantCompass

Bruce Norris came in twice to audition for 'The Corrections' and subsequently spent many months negotiating every point in a four-year agreement to appear in the show.

Scott Rudin

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There are things we can control and the things we can't control. I can't control how people react to the work I do.

Noah Hawley

WorkPeopleControlReactThings

When you're a model, you learn how to make the most of your assets - in my case, the smallish behind that is the legacy of my half-Japanese heritage.

Marie Helvin

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