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Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of logic that you only really experience when you're not feeling very well, or as a child.

Helen Oyeyemi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Experience Child Weird Logic You

In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

Mehmet Oz

Family Alone You Always Hospital

A lot of people have been quite surprised with the stuff that I'm doing on my own, which shocks me because I've always known what I wanted to do. But people have only seen me with the Spice Girls, so I suppose it's not that surprising.

Melanie Chisholm

People Me Doing My Own Spice Always

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.

Stan Brakhage

Side Forever Poets Novelists Existed

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.

Steven Pinker

Knowledge History World Boundaries

I'm glad about 'The Curtain Call' now, but I remember being very confused watching it all go down because I was right there behind the curtain watching it all, and I couldn't believe these guys were breaking kayfabe.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Believe Confused Remember Down Go

I practice every day, I warm up before I play.

Travis Barker

Day Practice Warm Every Day Play Up

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

Douglas Horton

Change Never Changes Direct Occurs

Pink is not a color - it's a culture to me.

DeAngelo Williams

Culture Me Color Pink

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.

Bobby Flay

Game Holidays House Down Trophy Sit

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

Annie Leibovitz

Me Picture Someone You Go Want

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

Philip Roth

Friends Seriousness Deadly Sheer

'Atlantic City' is very good.

Peter Capaldi

Good City Very Atlantic