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Wole Soyinka Quotes

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

Wole Soyinka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: nigerian
Birth: July 13, 1934

Topics

Morning Writing Start Never Up Get

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

Michael Harrington

Important Rhetoric Poor Old Things

Sustainability has to be a way of life to be a way of business.

Anand Mahindra

Life Business Sustainability Way

The first job I ever had was right here in San Francisco with Southern Pacific.

Steven Burd

Job First Right San Francisco Here

In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process.

Sidney Sheldon

Thinking Process Clothes You Hand

I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility to keep it up, what they were doing.

Trombone Shorty

Time Responsibility People Grow Up

We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.

Tony Visconti

Right Scary Always Monsters Started

You're gonna know, if I have beef with somebody, then one of us is just falling out.

Tory Lanez

You Know Falling Out Us Just

Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.

Tony Curtis

Television Up Been Movie Every

Again, I don't hold it against somebody if they don't know who I am - I don't know who a lot of people are.

Lisa Loeb

I Am People Know Hold Against Again

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

Jonathan Haidt

Good Service Smart People Congress

Because I'm a former critic, I view criticism differently than most do. I can take criticism, but if you're going to eviscerate us, be specific.

Cheo Hodari Coker

Criticism View You I Can Critic Us

A film is not something that can be made over the phone or Skype. Creative people meet, spend time together, and then come up with something.

Arjun Kapoor

Time Together Creative People Phone