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Chinua Achebe Quotes

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Society Create Different Each

I got a lot of whoopings back in the day. I was a very curious kid.

John David Washington

Day Curious Back Kid Got Very

Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out.

Creative End Find Yes Out Things

Mexico secures their border. Why shouldn't we be able to secure ours?

Border Why Mexico Able Secure Ours

I had a lot of older musicians looking out for me, teaching me, and showing me things when they saw how interested I was in music from a young age. They would take me to the side and just play some things in my ear, and I would try to play it back to them.

Trombone Shorty

Music Age Me Looking Musicians Play

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

Lucinda Williams

Happiness People Obstacles Personal

After 'A Perfect Storm' came out, I heard from a young reader, who had suffered a similar background as 'Arizona,' that I had helped her to find peace. That was the most amazing thing in the world to me.

Peace Storm Amazing Me World Find

Creating a global platform for collaboration in education research and innovation has been the PISA initiative's aspiration from its conception in the late 1990s.

Jose Angel Gurria

Education Innovation Collaboration

Growing old is not growing up.

Growing Up Growing Old Growing Old

We don't over-manage projects like the studios do.

Like Studios Projects

Intimacy is healing.

Healing Intimacy

When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.

Kindness Yourself Spiritual Joy Ego

As much as we love playing the small clubs, we'd really like to get ourselves in front of a larger audience. I'm not talking about arenas or anything, but nice theaters and larger clubs.

Love Small Talking Nice Not Talking

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