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Chinua Achebe Quotes

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.

Chinua Achebe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Art Purpose Help Humanity See

When I was a kid, the high point of the day was to go to the mailbox and see if any mail came for me, and I'm still stuck in that mode.

Jim Beaver

Day Me Go Kid See High

My first professional audition was for a radio play in Manchester. That was the first audition that I got. It was my first paid job, which I think was, like, £150, and I thought it was megabucks.

Jodie Comer

Job Think Thought Professional Play

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

John Cusack

People Reading You Privacy Go Nice

I was a pretty wild kid, and I probably lived 48 years in my first 20. But I always seemed to have a true line of faith for some reason.

Michael Harney

Faith True Wild First Kid Line

I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

Stephen Curry

Live People Want Understand Way Own

Twitter died when the company banned me from its platform. I know that sounds egotistical. But remember what I just said. I'm right about everything.

Milo Yiannopoulos

Me Remember Know Said Company Right

It begins with the kind of story the writers want to tell. We never sit around in those retreats and say, 'We really need to make a change. Let's change this character.' Or throw a dart at the wall and see what hits. It all begins with story.

Jason Aaron

Change Character Story Wall Kind

It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

Jason Schwartzman

Funny People Eye Think You Dead

I think you can't really beat Bob Marley, especially the stuff he was doing with Lee Perry. Just that kind of clubby and dark and crazy stuff, even with the Wailers... Some of the songwriting was phenomenal.

Diplo

Crazy Think Doing You Dark Kind

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Denis Waitley

Relationship Courage Stay Focused

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

Doug E. Fresh

Learning Create New Hip-Hop Why

There is absolutely a gap in the market for thirty something women and, the more I look at it, the more I feel there needs to be a sense of ease and choice.

Phoebe Philo

Women Feel Look Choice Thirty More