Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

I do love Shirley Jackson, but I don't deserve to be named in connection with her. I remember reading 'The Haunting of Hill House' and having goosebumps for hours. The way she builds narrative pressure in that book is just amazing. I think you could reread it a few times and actually go out of your mind.

Helen Oyeyemi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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LoveMindAmazingBookReadingYou

I wasn't allowed to watch regular television when I was growing up, only PBS, so I watched 'Masterpiece Theatre' and a lot of Jane Austen. I loved stories where the girl is attracted to a man and it looks like it's not going to work out.

Jennifer Coolidge

WorkGirlManGrowing UpTheatre

When you side with a man, you side with him.

Steve Bannon

ManYouHimSide

No leader, however strong, can succeed at anything of national importance or significance unless he has the support and cooperation of the people he is tasked to lead and sworn to serve.

Rodrigo Duterte

LeaderSupportPeopleSucceedStrong

You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

Mitch Albom

WorkCultureBe StrongStrongEnough

For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.

Mitch Albom

PeopleMeEndBetterDieHand

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

Joy Bryant

LifeEndAlwaysUpBowWrapped

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Jawaharlal Nehru

FailureForgetPrinciplesObjectives

I think everyone is always so surprised to see the friendship that I have with The Vixen. We are very supportive of each other.

Aquaria

FriendshipThinkAlwaysEveryoneSee

I love being busy, and I love having a lot going on; it's exciting.

Annette Bening

LoveBusyBeingGoingExcitingLot

I thank those people that thought I had lost the agility to play shortstop, because they gave me more motivation.

Asdrubal Cabrera

PeopleMeThoughtMotivationPlay

Crafty politician that he is, Obama was smart enough to set low enough standards for his administration to claim 'victory' by the summer of 2011 or so.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

SmartVictoryEnoughSummerLowSet

When I get hate mail, I get really down on myself, and I read it to my mom, and my mom is like, 'So what? Who cares? These people don't know you, so you can't take the praise or the hate to heart.'

Nikki Reed

HeartMyselfHatePeopleMomYou

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