Ayobami Adebayo Quotes

I must have listened to at least 10 covers of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' - Jeff Buckley's cover is usually my go-to song.

Ayobami Adebayo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.

Jessica Simpson

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It's the weird thing that actors do: You jumped across that building because the scene required it.

John Cameron Mitchell

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For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.

Jeremy Hardy

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I sign a film based on the story, the role I play, and the maker.

Amitabh Bachchan

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I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.

Tom Hooper

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In our globalized world, our domestic prosperity depends heavily on the world economy, which, of course, requires stability and order. Who provides that stability and order? The U.S. military.

Tom Cotton

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The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.

Roger Waters

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You can't show someone how to play the drums in six weeks, but you can point them in the right direction.

Mike Joyce

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TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives; it's like a marriage.

Joss Whedon

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Class still matters in Britain today.

Johnny Vegas

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In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

Diane Mott Davidson

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My parents wanted me to be a Baptist minister. I was a youth minister in my church when I was still in college. And I was in a lot of theater in high school, and at Northwestern.

Dick Gephardt

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