Chris Abani Quotes

My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.

Chris Abani

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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When I'm not working, I don't mix with actors, really. I have about two or three friends from theater school, and we call each other and meet. But in the main, no. I'm more happy with musicians or horse riders or sailors.

Jeremy Irons

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Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character.

John Thaw

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I want to score more than 20. It's my job. But it is not an obsession for me ahead of winning titles for the team.

Alvaro Morata

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For a man to come right out and say he does not believe in the Old Testament, I think many Catholics across the nation as well as the world are offended by Bill O'Reilly claiming he's an Irish Catholic.

Stephen Bennett

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What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot of public readings.

Russell Smith

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Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

Minna Antrim

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The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.

Chris Hughes

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I learned from watching Florida Georgia Line every night. The energy that they possess on stage, that's something that I wanted in my show.

Chris Lane

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I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

Christina Ricci

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Some in the bitcoin community have always taken an anti-government, anti-fiat, anti-bank approach to their philosophy. Ripple takes the orthogonal side of each of those.

Brad Garlinghouse

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In television writing, you want to hear what the characters say as opposed to giving them something to say. It's the same with the cartoons.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

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The East Village is where I cut my teeth as a kid. I ran around here on a skateboard.

Wylie Dufresne

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