The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips. - Taiye Selasi - Quotesmemo.com

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I never really know what I'm playing. I just follow what sounds good in my head and keep going.

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Taiye Selasi

The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.

Pain, Retreat, Thing, Yoga

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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

Obliged, Release, World, Writer

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

Ask, Asks, Novelist, Novelists, Tell, Telling The Truth

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

Ideas, People, Stories, Wondered, Writing

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

People, Literature, Individual, Greater, Somehow

What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that mean most to them. Perhaps what most typifies the Afropolitan consciousness is the refusal to oversimplify; the effort to understand what is ailing in Africa alongside the desire to honour what is wonderful, unique. Rather than essentialising the geographical entity, we seek to comprehend the cultural complexity; to honour the intellectual and spiritual legacy; and to sustain our parents’ cultures.

Celebrate, Effort, Essentialising, Mean, Spiritual, Unique

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Daniel Powter

I never really know what I'm playing. I just follow what sounds good in my head and keep going.

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Cyril Cusack

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They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

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Arthur Wallis

Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah.

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Pope John Paul II

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The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.

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Richard Dawkins

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Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the cards themselves survive the shuffling. The cards are the genes. The genes are not destroyed by crossing-over, they merely change partners and march on. Of course they march on. That is their business. They are the replicators and we are their survival machines. When we have served our purpose we are cast aside. But genes are denizens of geological time: genes are forever.

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