"Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse."

-- William Gurnall

#Affliction Quotes #Prosperity Quotes #Made Quotes

“Always work on the things you're not good at, because once you develop skills in those areas, you have no more fears.”
“It is history that has distorted our lives and complicated issues. The good thing is; whether we like it or not, a lot of us are still fighting. If there was no Nkrumah, there probably won't have been a Fela Anikulapo Kuti. I appreciate the fact that he stood and risked his life. I am proud of his courage, but if you asked if he was a conventional father who did homework with me and taught me music, he did nothing of this.”
“I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.”

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“Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.”
“I went through a really good-looking phase from birth to 9. And then things went crazy. I don't know what happened, but between 9 and 14 it was really, really rough. I didn't have a lot of friends. The only ones who were nice to me were the theater kids. And they were like, 'You can come and join us. No one likes us.”
“I was very religious when I was younger. I went to a seminary for three years, studied to be a priest, and um, so that sort of natural idealism just um sort of carried over into my feelings about joining the army.”
“Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.”
“Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.”

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