Chris Abani Quotes

It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship.

Chris Abani

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: nigerian
  • Birth: December 27, 1966

Topics

LoveRelationshipMeComplicated

The best decision I made at NYU was joining the Shakespeare ensemble. It literally led to everything I did after that. It gave me the kind of confidence I really needed.

Jesse L. Martin

ConfidenceDecisionBestMeKind

There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.

Robert Powell

RelationshipSimpleIgnoreYouFind

I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it just made sense for me to set 'Burlesque' on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. It's a place I know intimately well and love, and I think there's a great story to be told with L.A.

Steve Antin

LoveSunsetGreatDayNew YorkCity

I like documentaries; I watch the Soccer Channel; I like the Military Channel.

Steve Jones

SoccerMilitaryWatchLikeChannel

Every time I lock my people in a spacecraft or land them on an asteroid, the blood wells up again, and I'm writing horror. Horror's my default setting. It's also where I prefer to write.

Stephen Graham Jones

TimePeopleWritingBloodLandUp

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

Rita Mae Brown

GoodYouTasteGood TasteLikeYour

What is so good about 'Gavin and Stacey' is that it is very real, Welsh, and well written.

Ronnie Corbett

GoodRealWellWelshVeryAbout

When I was in high school in St. Louis my best friend was Marsha Mason. Marsha was a year ahead of me.

Mary Frann

FriendBestSchoolMeBest Friend

I am actually a resident of three worlds - of America, of India, and of Africa. I live in Uganda most of the year. It's extraordinary to have that worldview that is an expansive one rather than just looking at the world from where you sit.

Mira Nair

LiveI AmWorldLookingYearYou

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

Mo Rocca

FunnyFocusWarPeopleMoreNever

Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films turn out exactly as you want. Sometimes they don't. I spent a lot of my childhood on sets. I think as a joke, my father gave me a line of dialogue in each of his films during the worst moments of my puberty.

Jason Reitman

FatherSonChildhoodMeGrowing Up

Sometimes I drive, and sometimes I'm driven.

Anthony Levandowski

DriveSometimesDriven

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