Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes

It's like I was always not quite sure even how to move in space somehow; I would watch people and then copy them. I found it really hard to walk straight. My brother was always on at me for walking off the pavement. I guess I always expected people to bring me back into line.

Binyavanga Wainaina

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: kenyan
  • Birth: January 18, 1971

Topics

WalkSpaceBrotherPeopleMeBack

My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off.

Jez Butterworth

FatherAttitudePoliticsChildMe

Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.

Jeb Bush

ImmigrantsCreateProsperityEconomic

I've done a lot of action movies, and there has to be a certain amount of emotion in the actual performing of the stunt. It doesn't have to be any particular emotion, but there has to be some life to it, and that's not so easy.

Tom Noonan

LifeActionEasyDoneMoviesStunt

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

KnowledgeStepFirst StepPersonSin

I thought I was going to be a Spur.

Jason Kidd

ThoughtGoingSpur

When you don't win games, yeah, you lose confidence. That's normal.

Didier Drogba

ConfidenceWinYouLoseGamesYeah

My mother is most attached to my brother because she has the feeling that she could not provide him anything. By the time I was born, at least I got a meal and a half a day, but he sometimes got only water.

Dhanush

MotherTimeWaterDayBrotherBorn

I am not a consecutive writer.

Dr. Seuss

I AmWriterAmConsecutive

You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor.

William Scranton

ResponsibilityPeopleFeelYouWay

I don't want to be one of those 'hour' guys who is all bitter about reality TV. It's as viable as any other genre - when it's great, it's great. However! Reality does a certain thing. It burns quickly, brightly, and then it burns out. You can't repeat them.

Tim Minear

GreatRealityYouWantOutRepeat

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

Richard Dawkins

WarThoseEventuallyShallTrial

People don't like the same thing. You have to keep their attention.

Kevin Harvick

PeopleAttentionYouSameKeepLike

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