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W. Kamau Bell Quotes

The size of the city and the nature of how independent the neighborhoods are means that not only do people who live outside Chicago not know what is going on there, Chicagoans often don't know what is going on there.

W. Kamau Bell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: January 26, 1973

Topics

Nature Live People City Know Size

We at Interscope put projects out with anyone we believe has a great idea and is a true talent, whether it's a musician, photographer, software developer, or technology innovator.

Jimmy Iovine

Technology Great Talent Believe True

I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and then, or continued writing poetry. But it was the war experience and the two novels I wrote about Vietnam that really got me started as a professional writer.

Joe Haldeman

Experience War Poetry Me Writing

I think that, certainly, most of my operatic roles are in German. I think it happened because, of course, I was lucky in that I was invited to sing, first of all, my operatic debut in Berlin at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, which was West Berlin at the time.

Jessye Norman

Time Think Lucky First West Sing

To me, it doesn't make any sense to pick your work based on the size of the budget of the movie.

John C. Reilly

Work Me Budget Size Sense Your

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

John Malkovich

Talking Movies Years Like Eight

My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the 'New York Times' Building.

Ann Coulter

New York Building Regret Go New He

Out of silence is born concentration, and from that comes learning.

Stephen Hough

Learning Silence Born Out

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.

Tone Loc

Man Fighting Trying You Know Out

All anyone agreed on was that Kurban Said was the pen name of a writer who had probably come from Baku, an oil city in the Caucasus, and that he was either a nationalist poet who was killed in the Gulags or the dilettante son of an oil millionaire or a Viennese cafe-society writer who died after stabbing himself in the foot.

Tom Reiss

Son City Name Pen Said Oil

I always loved working in comedy.

Robert Duncan McNeill

Loved Comedy Always Working

It's been invigorating being back on the West Coast, being at Alphabet, because there is so much innovation. And the big challenge is, how do you think about resource allocation and priorities when you have so many great options? But wearing jeans instead of suits and popping into driverless cars has also been a lot of fun.

Ruth Porat

Innovation Great Challenge Fun Think

I write as if I'm someone reading the book - often people ask if I write one strand first and then go back and seed in the other, but I don't think I could keep track of who knows what, and the tension would come out wrong, so the answer is no - I write it more or less in the order you read it.

Ruth Ware

People Book Reading Seed Think You