"People donâ€™t fear the wind until it fells a tree. Then, they say itâ€™s too much."

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Sefi Atta

#Wind Quotes #People Quotes #Tree Quotes

“The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share the same crusading zeal and the same lack of humor, charity and common human decency. These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.”
“I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.”

Source : "Terry Wogan turned down for BBC2 job in 1965 by David Attenborough" by Jasper Jackson, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2016.
“Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good?”
“People tend to believe that I want to make soul music, which is not entirely untrue but, really, I want to be like the black Tom Waits - I don't want to make one kind of sound.”
“Strange how someone you once loved can become just another person you once knew.”
“I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one”
“Sometimes you have to show a little skin. This reminds boys of being naked, and then they think of sex.”

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