Chinua Achebe Quotes

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

Chinua Achebe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.

Jim Jarmusch

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We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.

Jessica Chastain

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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

Andrew Young

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China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves.

Andrea Jung

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A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

Anna Freud

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I wait and see what scripts come my way and then try and make a decision within the choices that I'm offered. I see what turns up, and if it's something I'd really rather not do, or I think it's too similar to something I've just done, I'll wait and hope for something else.

Steven Mackintosh

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The news business is simple, but it's not easy to do well.

Roger Ailes

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Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it.

Mike Watt

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I do get pissed off when I'm at some gay event, and there's a 25-year-old, and he has no idea who I am. And I say, 'You need to know more about your gay history, boy.' I think the younger generation takes it a little bit for granted.

Martina Navratilova

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If you call it a romance, it will never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other respectable literary venue. And that's okay. I can live with that.

Diana Gabaldon

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I was 17, and a friend said, 'Man, you've got to listen to this song,' and he played 'Man to Man.' From there on, I was hooked on country. Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Clint Black. Every show that came through America West Arena, I was there.

Dierks Bentley

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The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn't what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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