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Chris Abani Quotes

I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Style Smart People Reading

It would be nice if areas could be revitalised - like places in the U.S. such as Pittsburgh, for example, which have been transformed through shale. There you have shiny cars in a shiny city because of the development of shale in an old industrial heartland.

City You Be Nice Nice Development

If you look at three diseases, the three major killers, HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, the only disease for which we have really good drugs is HIV. And it's very simple: because there's a market in the United States and Europe.

Good Simple You Look Three Europe

If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.

Time Me Ideas Die Find Lucky

I find the trick to playing a villain is that you can't be bad for the sake of being bad. It has to be rooted in some sort of heartbreak.

Villain You Bad Find Heartbreak

I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book.

Love Book You Write Your Readers

The idea that America, whose oil production has been declining for the past 40 years, is now on track to become the world's biggest producer by 2015 is still hard to grasp.

Past World America Now Become Oil

Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.

Alone Best I Am People Luxury Now

My goals are to run the London Marathon and do the best that I can.

Goals Best I Can Run London

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

Love Children Negative Parent You

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.

Encourage Use Programs Concluded

If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.

People You Salt Know Say Rude

I was the singing voice of a cartoon character. I did dog food commercials. I did a lot of commercials, actually, and helped pay my rent and my classes. Then I'd get one good line or two good scenes. I was building my career and building my own experience and learning technically what it was like to be on a set and all of those things.

Dog Learning Good Character Food

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