Chinua Achebe Quotes

Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I don't really know about its value to the student. I don't mean it's useless. But I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write.

Chinua Achebe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ValueMeStudentKnowLivingMean

I watch a lot of movies. I've watched movies since I was a kid. My dad brought me to the theater once a week. Always - it was a must. So I think that influenced me a lot to be an actor.

Joe Taslim

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We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

John Lancaster Spalding

MoreUsDisturbedThanCalamity

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

Matthew Vaughn

MoviesMakingYeahPhased

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Jean-Paul Sartre

DreamsTruthDreamersLikeMistook

I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.

Siobhan Fahey

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Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.

Tucker Carlson

FunnySmartPeopleInterestingMost

Reasonable people can differ on whether or not we should have gone into Iraq.

Mike Pence

PeopleGoneShouldReasonableIraq

I'm of the establishment but anti-establishment.

Jonathan Powell

Establishment

Some critics say I spent too much time on politics. I don't put much stock in the critics.

Antonio Villaraigosa

TimePoliticsToo MuchSayCritics

The morality of a society is not judged by the behaviour of an oppressed class but by the rules and laws made by the state, which either protect or exploit an already depressed section of society.

Asma Jahangir

SocietyRulesMoralityClassProtect

I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was 'The Little Mermaid,' and I don't know if you remember 'The Little Mermaid,' but it's dreadfully sad. The little mermaid falls in love with this prince, but she cannot marry him because she is a mermaid.

Alice Munro

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Wine is crying juice. Rum is worse.

Retta

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