Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

I don't think anything can help me socially, to be honest: I have this terrible personality. I don't really know how to describe it... maybe I'll go with surly.

Helen Oyeyemi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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It's nice to see my work recognized as being worth something beyond the printed page, and it was very cool seeing Thanos up on the big screen.

Jim Starlin

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It's fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working, but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions.

Maynard Webb

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Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.

Max von Sydow

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It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.

Matthew Ashford

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In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the world - and then doing what is required to get that goal achieved.

John Prendergast

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Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way to make it funny - that's the difficult thing.

Trevor Noah

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My favorite thing about horror is that it attracts this great group of nuts, of which I include myself in. I was always kind of an oddball. I collected my fingernails, for instance.

Jason Blum

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Twitter's a funny one. I mean, it's good in some respects, but I can't stand it in other respects. You know there are too many opinions, people get opinions mixed up, and people get being rude mixed up with 'that's my opinion.'

Dionne Bromfield

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I took a little break after 'The Palace of Illusions' to clear my head.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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The future should be exciting, you know? It shouldn't be a nerve-wracking experience.

Brendon Urie

FutureExperienceYouKnowExciting

In 1983, I set up Caxton Corp. It's been an interesting and happy ride since.

Bruce Kovner

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Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.

Arlen Specter

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