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Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: December 10, 1984

Topics

Love Character Voice Become Been

We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.

Music Growing Up House Choice Up

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life Good Business Succeed Fail Our

For the first few years after I lost weight, I would feel for my hip bones every morning when I woke up so I would know I wasn't fat. It was like pinching myself so I'd know I wasn't dreaming.

Morning Myself Feel Fat Lost Know

That's the way New Orleans is. It's driven by the music.

Trombone Shorty

Music New Way New Orleans Driven

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

Life Good Live Light World Regret

If you've got a big star like O'Reilly, it does overshadow what the hard-news guys do during the day. That's the nature of television.

Nature Day You Television Big Star

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.

Christopher Reeve

Dreams Impossible Inevitable First

The gossip mill on tour is always turning. I have to be a little careful about what I tell guys who I don't consider close friends, because even though they might not spread it to other players, they'll usually tell their wives. And once the wives get it, it's gone.

Friends Gossip Always Tell Gone Get

I went to multiple doctors to make sure that I'm taking the right anti-depression medication and make sure that my blood pressure's okay. I found out that my blood pressure wasn't okay and that I had a fatty liver. All these health risks were coming up.

Ashley Nell Tipton

Health Risks Pressure Blood Okay Up

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Someone You Go Burden Let Go Lived

I am still very observant. I am absorbed by people and why they do what they do.

Marianne Elliott

I Am People Why Still Observant Am

More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth. But more than ever, it also comes with a mountain of student loan debt.

Growth Opportunity Knowledge Mountain

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