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Petina Gappah Quotes

There's a Shona saying: 'chakafukidza dzimba matenga' - 'What covers the home is the roof,' or 'Every home has its secrets.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: zimbabwean
Birth: 1971

Topics

Home Saying Secrets Roof Every

You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.

People World Better You Need Make

When you release endorphins, you just feel good.

Good Feel Good Feel You Release

I always make sure to eat a healthy breakfast because it's the first meal you eat that fuels your body for the rest of the day. Plus, breakfast is the perfect time to get away with eating carbs because they'll be burned off before the day is done, so every now and then I splurge on a Belgian waffle - my favorite!

Jessica Parker Kennedy

Time Day Breakfast Eating Rest Body

Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.

Question Ambitious Everybody He

Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.

Change Down Too Much Sometimes Need

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.

Think Understand First Economy Part

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

Stockard Channing

Me Thought Artist Inspiration Just

The one thing I'm not tempted to ever do is stop working. Retirement would be too tough for me. As a workaholic and an insomniac, I identified with my subject, General Dumas, who, according to field reports, would ride on patrols without sleep sometimes for two nights on end before going into battle - and winning.

Ride Sleep Me Winning Retirement

I've often felt like an outsider, not necessarily because I'm Korean, an immigrant, or female. I think writers are odd people.

People Think Immigrant Outsider Odd

What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.

Mother Teacher Time Habit Think

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

Beginning Slow Guitar Go Going

Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.

Knowledge Democracy Voting Vote True

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