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Buchi Emecheta Quotes

I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: nigerian
Birth: July 21, 1944 - January 25, 2017

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Bride Back Go Young Two Years

In my job, I have many operations, so I tend to use time in my car to think. I get in the car after work and drive all night -11 hours, Vancouver to Banff.

Work Car Time Job Night Drive

I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.

Up Show Get Tonight Did Once

We need more women solving different problems, starting companies, and creating jobs to drive our economy and society forward.

Women Society Drive Forward Problems

Family is everything to me. Family and health are the two most important things to me.

Family Health Me Important Two Most

My career in racing started at a very young age in California.

Age Racing Career Young California

Growing up, I always wanted to play a fighter.

Sidharth Malhotra

Growing Up Play Growing Fighter Up

I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.

House Touch Things Velvet Like Lush

Libraries are where it all begins.

Where Begins Libraries

A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.

Eyes Art Together Performance Coming

I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. He was like my closest older brother. There's just so much that we lived through together.

Life Together Death Brother Think

In the Roman world, and in the worlds around it that Romans sought to subdue and control, the gods were merciless, frivolous, prone to set traps for humans, and largely indifferent to the unprivileged bulk of humankind, who in any case did not expect their fate in the afterworld to be any better than it had been on earth.

Control World Fate Better Earth Set

Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory.

Power Justice Influence Corrupt He

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