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Petina Gappah Quotes

I don't want to write because I have to; I want to write because I want to. Sometimes, when writers write because they have to, the results are disastrous.

Petina Gappah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: zimbabwean
Birth: 1971

Topics

Results Sometimes Want Write Because

Pirates almost never sailed with women. Just four or five are known to have worked as pirates during the Golden Age. Two of them - Mary Read and Anne Bonny - became famous, dressing as men and fighting alongside one of the most celebrated of all pirate captains, 'Calico' Jack Rackham.

Robert Kurson

Women Age Men Famous Fighting Never

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

Sonia Sotomayor

You Afraid Own Where Different Mine

When I'm good at something, I always try to be the best at it and claim that throne. Even in school, I never let anyone say anything to me; I would always be the smartest.

Stormzy

Good Best School Me Say Never

My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C.

Tracy Austin

Brother Now Washington Advantage

I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.

Robert Winston

Life Children Believe Egg You Human

Surrender to the flow.

Mike Gordon

Surrender Flow

I had best friends who were in the industry, and I'm like, it's cool if you get a job, and I'm happy.

Millie Bobby Brown

Best Job Happy Cool Friends You

What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.

Dominic Monaghan

Me Alive Way Human Eat Anything

I became stereotyped.

Dick Dale

Became

When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', their career skyrocketed. As a photographer, you were very empowered; people came to you, bowing to you and what you represented.

Douglas Kirkland

Life People Picture You Look Career

Sometimes it's tougher against bad teams because you can't really get a read on them.

Draymond Green

You Bad Sometimes Against Get Read

Therefore we have to go over the fact that all human beings are afraid by what is new. It is our work to convince them that they will enjoy it, and even if they don't, to allow us just for 14 days to create that work of art.

Christo

Work Art Enjoy Create Go New