Ayobami Adebayo Quotes

I wanted to write about extended family systems. You have people you can fall back on, and it's good. But what if you don't fit into what is expected of you?

Ayobami Adebayo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: nigerian
  • Birth: January 29, 1988

Topics

FamilyGoodPeopleYouFallBack

The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.

Jodie Foster

PeopleWorldMoviesOutSuccessful

When my job isn't performing in a WWE ring, my job is to get back performing in that ring. When I'm hurt, all I have to do all day is get strong and get better. I'm a very dedicated physical therapy patient, and that helps a lot.

John Cena

DayJobStrongHurtBetterBack

If you have a brother or sister, tell them you love them every day - that's the most beautiful thing. I told my sister how much I loved her every day. That's the only reason I'm OK right now.

Amaury Nolasco

LoveBeautifulDayBrotherSister

Making a record is an intimate experience. A good producer can get things out of you that you can't get out of yourself.

Rob Halford

GoodExperienceYourselfYouOut

When I was little, my father was one of the biggest names in Hollywood. Suddenly - and how it happened to him was always a great mystery to me - he wasn't a star anymore; he was on the fringe. From the time I was 14, I was always conscious of a sense of worry, of terrific insecurity - agents, phony talk, the waits for the phone to ring.

Jason Robards

FatherGreatTimeMeInsecurity

Be able to see people's humanity. I think the way that you do that and see people for more than their surface value is, say, you're reading something in the news: the gender pay gap, or gay adoption, anything that involves a group of people being marginalized.

Jonathan Van Ness

ValuePeopleReadingThinkYouGay

My favorite subject in high school was English. I love reading and writing, and I felt really supported in this subject, and my least favorite was math, since I felt completely lost.

Christie Laing

LoveSchoolWritingReadingLost

It's very personal to me and doesn't work for everybody, but what I have found in my experience is that when I make pro and con lists, it's usually because I am trying to talk myself out of a good idea or talk myself into a really bad one.

Bozoma Saint John

WorkGoodMyselfExperienceI AmMe

Part of the intro to life in the public eye is, you get a bit of attention from fashion designers.

Antoni Porowski

LifeFashionEyeAttentionYouGet

You've got to do what's right, or what you think is right. And you've got to make tough decisions. And you've got to be willing to take on your friends when you disagree with them.

Antonio Villaraigosa

ToughThinkDecisionsFriendsYou

Money means better meals at better places.

Alison Brie

MoneyBetterPlacesMealsMeans

In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.

Thomas Frank

CulturePeopleVillainBondKnow

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