"It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation."

-- Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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“It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.”
“I may be a little old-fashioned, but I actually believe that if you live and work in our house and you work on our payroll and you take oaths, then integrity matters in elections.”

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“Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear.”

Source : P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2007). “Betrayed: A House of Night Novel”, p.13, Macmillan
“I have to think that somewhere on some little island in the Pacific, there's someone's who's great, but I'm probably never going to hear him.”

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“I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.”
“If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.”
“I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it.”

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