Chinua Achebe Quotes

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Chinua Achebe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodReligionStoryThoughtFeelUs

I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport.

Joel Silver

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It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.

John Conyers

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Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by living the lives of his or her characters.

Robert J. Sawyer

WritingSomeoneLivingSheHerJust

Once I really got into securities fraud prosecutions, I came to realize how central they were to the maintenance of a free market and how, in many ways, they are far more important to the welfare of our society than many of the more sensational criminal cases that one hears about.

Jed S. Rakoff

SocietyFreeImportantMoreFraud

I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.

Jeff Lemire

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My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

Shirley Knight

GoodNew YorkRichFamousGoalNew

There's no reason to hold yourself back and say you can't do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it.

Russell Westbrook

LifeYourselfYouBackGoSay

The pope is a very... passionate man. He likes to get out with the people, and with that comes a large security risk.

Michael McCaul

ManPeopleSecurityRiskPassionate

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

Jason Blum

ReadingWantJudgmentKeepScript

When things are going well on the pitch, it is because I know I have the coach behind me.

Dimitri Payet

MeKnowCoachThingsGoingWell

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Chinua Achebe

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When I'm on set filming 'One Tree Hill,' I get up and work out four to five days a week.

Shantel VanSanten

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