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Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.


Chinua Achebe

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CHUCK PALAHNIUK My wish is to create a huge library of books.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean mys...
ALICE ENGLERT I'm the most Failure Model of My parents activities
SATHESH KUMAR M abundant feeling of your presence in front of Allah is enjoy full solitude state where you are in bo...
M.I.SHAIKH MY SELF It's raining spiders, seriously. Maybe that's a bad sign.
MY MORNING JACKET At Dawn/Tennessee Fire Demos
MY MORNING JACKET You go up there and it's just this amazing place on top of a mountain,
MY MORNING JACKET Music is my life.
ROBERT ILER I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each othe...
TAYLOR SWIFT Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their fa...
AYN RAND My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books...
ALEJANDRO AMENABAR I love to go the library to borrow books. But I also enjoyed buying books to create my sacred librar...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civili...
BILL BRYSON Music is my life. It is sacred.
JIMMY CHAMBERLIN To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.
I’d never be ...
C.S. LEWIS I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of labor...
JAY MCINERNEY I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.
JOHN FRANKENHEIMER You don't know that and I don't know that!
MICHELE COSTELLO The whiskey’s power released his repressed memories so fast that his words raced to keep up with t...
PASCAL MARCO His shoulder might be hurting like a son of a bitch and he was more than slightly sloshed but he rec...
VICKIE MCKEEHAN I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is s...
JOHN OSBORNE I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I have decided that I don’t want to die empty. I want to live so full that after all the spilling ...
TEMITOPE IBRAHIM My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There are women in my closet, hanging on the hangers. a different woman for each suit, each dress, e...
MARYA HORNBACHER With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my o...
AUSTIN GROSSMAN My website, my email magazine, my blog, my books, my corporate seminars, and my public seminars all ...
JEFFREY GITOMER My God, the whole world is collapsing. Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to eac...
DAVID BALDACCI Its a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror.
LOIS LOWRY One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an ...
DANIEL TAMMET To have the knowledge that would make my father proud is a gift that has not been handed to me on a ...
GARY F EVANS... My experience is that books take on a life of their own and create their own energy. I've repres...
BILL CLEGG Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Bo...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL LIFE IS AN ENTHUSIASM. MY EXPERIENCE OF LIFE, MY VISION ALL ARE MENTION IN MY BOOKS. WRITING LANGUAG...
SARAVAN MAHESWER A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of
JANE AUSTEN My dream of society is a society where women are free and proud of their bodies.
NAJAT VALLAUD-BELKACEM My mind is killing me”
— The Glass Child, Stuck In My Mind
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON And so I met my match in a woman, she deflated my ego and constantly challenged me, wanted to beat m...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL I made a list of things I wanted to do with my life, but it ended up mostly being a list of books I ...
ELLIE ROSE MCKEE A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make,...
EMILY GIFFIN My first album is a lot of my personal experiences. I wanted people to relate to what I've been ...
REBECCA FERGUSON It's fun to use all of my range; there are so many different colors and textures that come out, ...
GRETCHEN PARLATO Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.
STEVE BURNS Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
LENNY KRAVITZ I love all of my books. They were labors of love; I was striving to create something well done, and ...
LYNN FLEWELLING My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a chi...
MANIKA My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society.
ABHIJIT NASKAR My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese ...
DALAI LAMA I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.
ELSA MAXWELL I didn't start my label out of a business perspective. I did it because I wanted to create a pla...
MARTIN GARRIX I really love being a weirdo who writes a lot of different things for a lot of different ages. I hav...
HOLLY BLACK We've got so many different cultural groups in my family that I've had to learn to accommoda...
TREVOR NOAH I only wanted to help my people.
BELLE BOYD Harry doesn't like people, you see." "I do like people," Harry said. "I just don't like being with t...
JO NESBø I've had people deliberately want to have a meeting in my office. I need to put up a hammock and a l...
DANA GROFF The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get...
CAROLE KING I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a d...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART I wanted to create jobs so that my children could stay here in our community and work. People in the...
BILLY PICKERING With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Al...
DENISE MINA My goal as a novelist is to create smart entertainment, books that keep bright people up too late, t...
MARCUS SAKEY I have to be allowed room to do all different things.
MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING If you love someone you say it, you say it right then, out loud. Otherwise the moment just passes yo...
MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING Suck my Ass
SUCK MY ASS GIRL The Only Way Out Is To DIE!!!!
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their fr...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very dif...
W. H. AUDEN Unless you allow yourself to seek your inner depths; the surfacial affairs of life shall always engr...
DINESH KUMAR The parts I've got to create are a little bit different to a lot of guys my age.
JACK LOWDEN Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on...
MARY ELLEN MARK I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'...
NICKI MINAJ My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support ...
ALBERTO JUANTORENA When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wante...
CAI GUO-QIANG It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My n...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the...
ADRIANA TRIGIANI My first dream was to travel. I was attracted to different places, different colors of skin, differe...
GUY LALIBERTE pudding....
DALLY SALAD When I was 5 years old, I saw people dancing in my head. In college, I would choreograph for the cul...
PAYAL KADAKIA I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.
BIRDY My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity an...
KAREN TRAVISS My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first b...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.
GUNTHER SCHULLER In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Telling other people our life story changes us in a startling and profound way. The act of telling d...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Iata deci cugetarea mea profunda pe ziua de azi: e pentru prima oara cand intalnesc pe cineva care c...
MURIEL BARBERY Knowledge leads towards different kind of societies then those societies don’t relate with each ot...
ZAMAN ALI Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
CARLOS FUENTES I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves fo...
MICHAEL DIRDA My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship witho...
EDVARD MUNCH I've always wanted to eat surrounded by my 'old friends' - books that I've read.
JOE HALE I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my s...
BARRY MCGEE I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I've loved trainers...
VINCENT CASSEL Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted i...
ADAM ANT All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I de...
JO NESBO Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get ex...
AARON SCHOCK All my life, people have been underestimating me.
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