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Ayobami Adebayo Quotes

When I was a child, there were two Nigerian writers in every bookshop: Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka.

Ayobami Adebayo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Child Two Every Were Nigerian

I have become a bit obsessed with eyebrows. I used to never have any, and then I realised big eyebrows are good, and now I'm an eyebrow fiend. Everyone comes to me to get their eyebrows done.

Good Me Done Now Become Never

I love to engage with people who come to see us.

Love People Engage See Us Come

When I first did 'The Lord of the Rings,' I was acting on the set with the other actors, but then I had to go back and repeat the process on my own to do the physical capture on a motion capture stage.

Process Back Acting Go Capture Own

I'll come up with an idea for a character, and I'll write some jokes and make sure that that character is going to have some legs to it - that it's really going to work. If I can come up with jokes and material that I think will work, then I make a cheap version of the doll. Achmed started out just being this little plastic toy from the store.

Work Character Think I Can Legs

I find all food irresistible. I have friends who live in the mountains in France. One of them sells vegetables, and to walk through her garden when everything is bursting out - it's impossible not to eat something.

Live Food Walk Mountains Impossible

Every year, I think of Worlds as the big meet, but now, it's the Olympics. I'm blessed to even have the opportunity to think about it and work for it.

Work Opportunity Blessed Think Year

How do we make sure that rising tides lift all boats and not just the yachts?

Lift Rising Sure Just Tides How

I always think part of success is being able to replicate results, taking what is interesting or viable about yourself as a professional person and seeing if you bring it into different situations with similar results.

Robert Downey, Jr.

Success Yourself Think Interesting

Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.

Happiness Small Little Just Very

I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

Good Discipline Best You Young Tell

I shouldn't have sat on death row 30 years. All they had to do was test the gun. But when you think you are high and mighty and you're above the law, you don't have to answer to nobody, but I've got news for you.

Anthony Ray Hinton

Death Law Gun Think You Nobody

Henry Hays was cheated all his life. He was cheated by his father who taught him to hate. His community taught him to hate. My mom told me, no matter what one does in life, he or she deserves some compassion, and I knew Hays deserved compassion more than anybody.

Anthony Ray Hinton

Life Father Community Hate Me Mom

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