Adwoa Aboah Quotes

When you want someone to notice you, there's one fail-safe way of making sure that they do: by plastering pictures of yourself across social media. Your motive might seem obvious, but so what?

Adwoa Aboah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: model
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 18, 1992

Topics

Social MediaYourselfSomeoneMedia

I'm sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb.

Jessi Klein

PaintingWorldSickMouthSculpture

My mom had an encounter with the KKK when she was, I think, 7 years old in North Carolina. She snuck into a cross burning. I'm so lucky she didn't get caught, because I wouldn't be here.

John David Washington

MomThinkLuckySheOldYears

When you take something that's inert, and through motion, give it life, make it appear to be alive, living, breathing thinking and having emotions, that's animation. But when you take something that's live-action, and move a part of it, that's a special effect.

John Lasseter

LifeThinkingYouEmotionsLiving

I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

Simon Baker

ThinkTalkingYouRebelDownKids

I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman.

Mike Scully

FatherBusinessBornCleaningWest

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

Mo Yan

LifeThinkMy LifeUnderstanding

I talked late, swam late, did not learn to ride a bike until college - and might never have walked or learned to drive a car if my parents hadn't overruled my lack of motivation and virtually forced me to embrace both forms of transportation. I suspect I was happy to sit in a corner with a book.

Julia Glass

CarRideBikeHappyParentsCollege

My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her from an orphanage. They are the lights of my life.

Lisa Kristine

LifeSonDaughterParentsMy Life

I have a hard time with people who say they write for children but they don't really like children. I love children. I love talking with them.

Jason Reynolds

LoveChildrenTimePeopleTalking

I don't recall exactly when I first began reading about Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery, but I suspect that it was in fourth grade.

Joseph Bruchac

ReadingDiscoveryFirstRecallBegan

Mindfulness is often spoken of as the heart of Buddhist meditation. It's not about Buddhism, but about paying attention. That's what all meditation is, no matter what tradition or particular technique is used.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

HeartTraditionAttentionMeditation

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

David Sedaris

FeelMouthRulesNewSometimesJust

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