Petina Gappah Quotes

There are some people who are happy to be African writers. They are pan-Africanists. I'm not a pan-Africanist. I think African countries have a lot in common. But we are also very different.

Petina Gappah

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If you're great, that means you're freaked out that the next day you're not going to be great. You keep trying.

Jimmy Iovine

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I don't intend to write the same kind of book for the rest of my life because I feel I would not be satisfied only writing in one mode.

Jesse Kellerman

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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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I didn't vote for President Obama, but I think he is our president, and I like and dislike decisions of any president in office.

Matt Mead

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Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses.

John Updike

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I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

Steven Pinker

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It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

Marya Mannes

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As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production.

Rudolf Hilferding

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I've known Emma Watson since she was 9, we've watched each other grow up, formed this sort of brother/sister bond, and suddenly I'm leaning in to kiss her. Well, it felt completely wrong... but, you know, you try to sink into the character and divorce yourself from it. We ended up laughing hysterically afterwards.

Rupert Grint

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At age 12, or even eight or nine, athletes were my role models. So when I would say I wanted to be the best, it was just because I was seeing my idols and wanted to do that. I don't think it necessarily was the most realistic thought process.

Milos Raonic

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Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.

Bruce Rauner

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I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous.

Bryan Greenberg

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