Teju Cole Quotes

We don't experience our lives as plots. If I asked you to tell me what your last week was like, you're not really gonna give me plot. You're gonna give me sort of linked narrative. And I wanted to see how do we bring that into fiction without losing the reader.

Teju Cole

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ExperienceLosingMeWeekYouSee

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

Jesse Watters

FunnyPoliticsThinkI ThinkItself

I started doing runway work when I was 15, and I remember meeting a model who was 30 - ancient, for the industry - and everyone was so happy to see her. As I've gotten older, I've experience the same thing. People are just thrilled to see me modeling!

Maye Musk

WorkExperienceHappyPeopleMeSee

We didn't lose a game at home for two years. What are we missing? We have the product on the field. We're exciting.

Megan Rapinoe

HomeGameLoseProductTwoMissing

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

Andy Warhol

RelationshipCaringTelevisionFirst

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

Jean-Paul Sartre

LifeDeathBecomeGoingStillDies

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

Michael Crichton

FunnyI AmWorldToo MuchCertainty

Ultimately, when you write from a vantage point of faith, humility, and openness to the world around you, people have to respond because those same truths are instilled in them.

Mat Kearney

FaithHumilityPeopleWorldYou

The trend is your friend.

Martin Zweig

FriendTrendYour

For me, to be perfectly honest, the part of my brain that was stimulated by directing was much more exciting than a typical day of acting.

Misha Collins

DayMeBrainActingMoreHonest

I do limit my exposure to the public. You only have so much time.

Donald Bren

TimeYouLimitExposureOnlyMuch

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

Chris Colfer

GreatTimeSchoolHigh SchoolDoing

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

Christopher Reeve

HardMightBeenResistHarp

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