Ayobami Adebayo Quotes

I think there is a dissonance between how much is expected of you as a young person, whether you are a man or a woman: you are supposed to go to university; you get a master's degree, maybe two, particularly if you come from the middle class.

Ayobami Adebayo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WomanManThinkYouPersonYoung

Travel is an exercise partly in broadening yourself and partly in defining your own limits.

Andrew Solomon

TravelYourselfLimitsExerciseOwn

I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite... well, intense about driving other people.

Matthew Fox

MyselfI AmPeopleThinkPressure

My father loved people, children and pets.

Tony Visconti

FatherChildrenPeopleLovedPets

If someone came into my home and wanted to arrest me for murder, that would be far less traumatizing to me than someone coming in and taking my 7-year-old twins.

Trent Franks

HomeMeSomeoneTwinsComingFar

Everybody thought of me as Arnold Horshack. I resented Horshack for so many years.

Ron Palillo

MeThoughtYearsEverybodyMany

It pumps me up - the whole idea of the bowler marking his run-up, popping at the crease, the crowd chanting, nerves building up. It's a very good feeling. Right from the first ball, I know I have to be at the top of my game.

Rohit Sharma

GoodMeBuildingGameFeelingKnow

My material reaches everyone.

Loni Love

EveryoneMaterial

I want to work with Will Ferrell. I want to do, like, an action-comedy with him. How do I get the project for that? It's killing me. I've got all these great ideas, and the hardest thing is getting the material, the screenplay, you know.

Jason Statham

WorkGreatMeIdeasYouKnow

Having been in the league with five different franchises, I know what the meaning of Monday Night Football is. It's usually the best games and the greatest venue outside the playoffs.

Jon Gruden

BestFootballMondayNightMeaning

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.

Chris Van Allsburg

ArtBookThoughtYouWriteSingle

I think everybody is always selling me short, and then I always prove them wrong.

CM Punk

MeThinkShortSellingWrongProve

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Bruce Lee

FearManKickWhoKicksOnce

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