Chinua Achebe Quotes

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Chinua Achebe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

Jessie Ware

LifeGoodMusicShelfGood Music

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

LifeBeginningManHappyEndBring

History rewards those who can change their minds when the stakes are high.

Andy Dunn

ChangeHistoryMindsHighRewards

It's tough to work with kids. Kids are animals!

Jean-Marc Vallee

WorkToughAnimalsKids

The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center.

Michael Douglas

StrengthBusinessYouProfitKnow

When I realised, on 'The Straits,' that physical work in the theatre takes much longer than directing scenes, it was like a eureka moment. If you want to work physically, you have to accommodate it, and it takes a disproportionate amount of time.

John Tiffany

WorkTimeMomentTheatreYouWant

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

Stephen Sondheim

MotherWomanMeAmbitionHandsShe

When I walk out of a movie that's actually good, I write emails to anybody I know who was involved with it.

Robert Ben Garant

GoodWalkKnowWriteOutInvolved

'Clue' was a big flop when it came out, but it became a... It's a movie that almost everyone references with me, now, when I run into people.

Michael McKean

PeopleMeNowRunEveryoneOut

Celebrity is very weird.

Javier Bardem

WeirdCelebrityVery

The sole purpose of nuclear weapons must be to deter their use by others.

Dianne Feinstein

PurposeOthersNuclear WeaponsMust

I was at number one in Australia with both my album and my single. And then I was told I had cancer. I thought, 'What a strange turn of events.'

Delta Goodrem

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