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Teju Cole Quotes

Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history - as befits a former law professor - and he has shown time and again a surprising interest in contemporary fiction.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: nigerian
Birth: June 27, 1975

Topics

History Time Man Law World Elegant

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

Life Identity Fighting My Life Much

Obama will learn from his mistakes.

Mistakes Learn Will His Obama

I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.

Russell Simmons

Freedom Focus Creative I Am People

I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie.

Decision You Bad Pictures Done Rent

A low budget is uncomfortable.

Budget Uncomfortable Low Low Budget

I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!

Help Go Out Freak Get Terrible

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

Leader Religion Rock Star You Rock

I think it is harder to scare young people because there is an ironic hipster stance that you have to take in relation to pop culture. You know you're being manipulated. People are so aware of the manipulation. We're all aware that movies toy with us and pull our strings. There was a time when people just didn't acknowledge that as much.

Time Culture People Think You Young

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Me Deprivation Were Wordsworth

I make all types of music. People wanna put me in a little box, and they get mad when I don't stay in there.

Music People Me Mad Box Little

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

Blues Jazz Classic Players Lot Sang

On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took the best aspects of each solo, mapped out a master solo and made a composite. Then I learned how to play the composite solo, tightened it up and replayed it for the final version.

Best Song Guitar Play Master Out

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