Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

I don't think my writing has much to do with my age. For me, my biography is more about what I was reading at what age. It's more of an intellectual thing of wanting to be free to write and think without being too bound by categorisation. I don't think I'm made for these times; I feel more like an old-fashioned writer.

Helen Oyeyemi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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One of the problems is that everybody is used to the old-fashioned debate system, which is very controlled, and where the moderator plays a more active role.

Jim Lehrer

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Everybody is always raving about the Rolling Stones, saying, 'The Stones this, and the Stones that.' I've never cared for the Stones. They never had anything to offer me musically, especially in the drumming department.

Joey Kramer

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Every now and then, I have a deep thought.

Joel Edgerton

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

MusicLanguageYouSayMeanCannot

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

Amy Winehouse

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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Robert Frost

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I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the Dodgers.

Rudy Giuliani

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The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.

Corey Taylor

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Music as a business is a dirty thing.

Brian Reitzell

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Do not consider that to be wealth which is hoarded away, for how is it better than sand gathered from the nearest heap? Nor that which comes in from men who groan at their taxes: for the gold that is wrung from tears is of base alloy and black.

Apollonius of Tyana

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I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.

Anne Rivers Siddons

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It is true that I will confess that I have an incredible fascination for pop-culture stories about the Apocalypse and the end of the world.

Annalee Newitz

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