Nnedi Okorafor Quotes

I love and am terrified of the water, particularly the ocean.

Nnedi Okorafor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: nigerian
  • Birth: April 8, 1974

Topics

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As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control.

Jo Brand

YourselfMeControlCalmSomeone

Whereas the handling of the case against President Nixon clearly strengthened the nation's respect for law, justice and truth, the Clinton impeachment may unfortunately have the opposite result.

Jeff Sessions

TruthRespectJusticeLawResult

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

Studs Terkel

YouBecomeRealizeActiveCountGet

Part of me still feels like I've never had the opportunity to properly express all my earliest influences, so for now, I find isolation to be my biggest influence.

Sturgill Simpson

OpportunityMeInfluenceIsolation

Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

Simon Newcomb

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It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Roy E. Disney

DecisionsYouValuesKnowHardYour

You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed.

Mike Wallace

DepressionCrazyStoryYouKnowNow

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

David Whyte

CourageGreatPoetryWorldFriends

The older I get and the more iconic the piece, I believe that it's wise to watch a bit and become inspired and take moments that feel so connected to the story and also connected to me that I feel like I can make a part of my own performance.

Annaleigh Ashford

WiseMePerformanceBelieveStory

I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge.

Shawn Ashmore

HeroFunThinkEdgePlayMore

If anything, one would think we learn from Brexit is we need a strong, stable banking system, not one to repeal the consumer bureau and repeal Dodd-Frank and give Wall Street what it wants. That would be the worst kind of response.

Sherrod Brown

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I love watching action movies. I love 007.

Shameik Moore

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