Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago.

Helen Oyeyemi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on.

Jennifer Aniston

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I'm always down for a Spice Girls reunion. I love the Scary hair and platforms. Any time of day or night I'll be there.

Mel B

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If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

Robert Reich

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Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It's most states are winners take all.

Michael Bloomberg

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I hate mean people. People who just pick at you and try to force you into a train wreck.

Method Man

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I don't know - personally, I don't watch many films where the violence itself is the main entertainment, because I find them boring.

Stellan Skarsgard

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Ballet is something for which you need so much control and composure. And there's an element to acting that is the complete opposite. You have to be able to completely let go and reveal everything about yourself. It's about being very vulnerable.

Sonoya Mizuno

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'All Def' is unlike any other comedy show or set because 'All Def' goes back to the essence of how urban comedy started. We give it a 'stoop appeal.' A stoop appeal is important for us because it's where pretty much all black comics started doing their standup: cracking jokes on the stoop, in the hood.

Tony Rock

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The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall.

Judy Smith

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San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from.

Juan Felipe Herrera

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Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself.

Anohni

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The I-495 bridge over the Christina River in Wilmington, Delaware, is tilting.

Anthony Foxx

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